Roy Blunt: “We've known that we were going to face this deadline for about 8 months now or for at least 6 months now. As to the…”

“We've known that we were going to face this deadline for about 8 months now or for at least 6 months now. As to the process there of going through suspension, I would just tell my friend that I think, on a suspension bill, if this has Medicaid cuts that hurt rural communities or that hurt minority seniors, as we believe some of the cuts in the CHAMP bill did, I would be prepared for this bill to fail on suspension. It might pass with a rule. I wouldn't know about that, but I would give some prediction here that a suspension bill that does those things as pay-fors to appropriately see that physicians are reimbursed but then to have a big debate on the House floor as to whether or not seniors--minority seniors and rural seniors--are disproportionately impacted would, in my opinion, lead to at least a veto-sustaining number on our side. I'd yield.”