Lee Terry in the News :: September 14, 2009

Terry unswayed by new Treasury report

Tony Romm/The Hill

09/13/09 08:33 AM ET

At least one Republican lawmaker said this weekend that the Treasury Department’s latest finding – that half of all Americans will lose their insurance at some point over the next 10 years – is still insufficient reason to support the public option.

“It’s compelling, but it doesn’t change the argument about a government-run or government participation in the plan,” Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) told MSNBC.
 

“A lot of us want to do reforms, but we want to do them without making government bigger and more intrusive and certainly without a $900 billion price tag or a $1.2 trillion price tag,” he added.

Terrry, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, voted against Affordable Health Choices Act before Congress departed for its summer recess.