“They think I shouldn’t be expressing my views on this bill until they get a chance to try to sell me the language,” Congressman Stupak said yesterday in an interview . Somehow that verb, sell , seems appropriate when speaking about the monstrosity of the Senate’s version of the health-care bill. So far, Stupak isn’t buying.
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