"House Republicans said the newly released Democratic health care reform bill would create an expensive government-run heath care system paid for by those who could least afford it, but they declined to say whether they would introduce a conference alternative," Roll Call reports. "We have better ideas, and we'll be talking about them over the next week," House Minority Leader John Boehner, said at a press conference Thursday, as he stood behind the Democrat's 1,990-page-thick block of legislation. Boehner would not say specifically when the GOP's ideas would be unveiled (Kucinich, 10/29).
House Republican leaders are also seeking to brand the Democratic legislation as the "Pelosi healthcare bill," The Hill reports. In a closed meeting between Republican legislators, the leadership said they wanted to use the label because of the speaker's low approval rating, a member of Congress who was not identified told The Hill (Hooper, 10/29).
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