Sen. Richard BlumenthalRichard BlumenthalBlumenthal plans emergency health care hearing for Monday Overnight Regulation: Interior to delay methane pollution rule | Trump nominates Dem to FCC | DeVos to redo Obama rules on for-profit schools Overnight Tech: Trump nominates Dem to FCC | Facebook pulls suspected baseball gunman's pages | Uber board member resigns after sexist comment MORE (D-Conn.) said he will hold his own emergency field hearing on health care Monday. <\/p>\n
The Connecticut lawmakers hearing is in response to what he says is a secret strategy Senate Republicans are using to push their version of the American Health Care Act. <\/p>\n
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Its a small group of Republicans, meeting in secret [and] none of us on the Democratic side have a clue as to what theyre doing, Blumenthal told the Hartford Current. <\/p>\n
How do we vote in the next few weeks on a bill that has not beenreduced to writing, that has been done in secret without any kind of public hearing? the senator continued. <\/p>\n
Republicans ripped the Democratic Affordable Care Act when it was a bill in Congress, claiming the bills deliberations were done in secret. <\/p>\n
However, top Senate Republicans claim there have been several public hearings on regarding the American Health Care Act. <\/p>\n
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellMitch McConnellBlumenthal plans emergency health care hearing for Monday Liberal group targets potential Republican healthcare swing votes Trump probe puts spotlight on Justice's No. 3 MORE said this week there have been gazillions of hearings on this subject over the years. <\/p>\n
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