Senators Debate Utility of Health Roundtables

• By Stephen Langel
• CongressNow Staff
• May 11, 2009, Midnight

The Senate Finance Committee is touting the public roundtables it has been holding on health care reform as a signal of a new bipartisan, open approach to lawmaking. But some Members, aides and lobbyists question if the sessions are anything more than window dressing before Members retreat behind closed doors to write a bill.