Jurisdictional Hurdle Emerges In Senate Amid Bipartisan Health Hearings

September 12, 2017 at 8:39 PM
The individual market stabilization effort by the Senate health committee could hit a hurdle with its jurisdictional counterpart, the Finance Committee, despite attempts by health committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to keep the effort as narrow as possible so leadership can bring the package directly to the floor. Finance Chair Orrin Hatch (R-UT) charged in a Friday (Sept. 8) op-ed that the health committee's effort merely kicks the can down the road, and a health expert says offsets from Finance...


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