Liberals rip Democratic leaders for writing drug pricing bill in secret
Posted on AllSides June 6th, 2019
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Progressive House Democrats are growing increasingly frustrated with their party’s leadership, accusing them of writing Democrats’ signature bill to lower prescription drug prices in secret and without their input.
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) compared the process around Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) drug pricing measure to the secrecy surrounding the GOP’s ObamaCare repeal bill in 2017, when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) famously wheeled a photocopier across the Capitol in a dramatized search for the hidden legislation.
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, likened Pelosi’s plan to the...