Our neighbor from Minnesota Senator Al Franken is working to pass some form of health care reform. He suggests:
…big pieces of legislation often need to be fixed after passage.Health care is a historic undertaking and this is no different.
If we in the Senate pledge to fix those top priorities right away through reconciliation… the House of Representatives should pass the Senate bill. The exact details of this process need to be worked out by the leadership and the president.
In a tribute to the work and memory of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Franken added:
I think we have to stop letting the perfect — and everyone has different definitions of perfect — ..be the enemy of the good… Walking away empty-handed to me is just not an option.
Sen. Franken’s ideas are shared by a growing number of his colleagues including Sens. Arlen Specter (Penn), Max Baucus (Mont.), Ben Nelson (Neb.) Kent Conrad (ND), Jeff Bingaman (NM), Dick Durbin (Ill.) and others.
Not everyone has lost hope and given up.
