Weiner: House Leadership 'Whistling Past The Graveyard'

Ryan Grim
HuffPost

Scott Brown's Senate victory should not put health care reform on hold, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) told reporters after a caucus meeting Tuesday.

Speaking before polls closed in Massachusetts, Weiner said that if Democrats lose their 60-seat supermajority, one option for the House would be to pass the Senate bill unchanged and send it directly to the president.

"I don't think I could vote for the Senate bill and I don't think there are the votes in the House to pass the Senate bill," Weiner said.

During the caucus meeting, the chairmen of the three relevant committees that oversaw passage of the House version laid out in detail the negotiations going on with the White House and the Senate to come to a compromise.

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