Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) sought to ease the concerns of liberals, saying the legislation is “not the end of health care reform, it’s the beginning of health care reform.”
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vowed to continue to stall the bill and called it “an absolute outrage that’s being perpetrated on the American people.”
Lois Lerner, director of exempt organizations for the IRS, arrives for a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the investigation of the IRS' targeting of political groups. Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment right to not testify and caused a protest from some committee members when she offered an opening statement and engaged in dialogue with members before invoking the right.
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