Republicans and Democrats came together on Tuesday for the Rose Garden signing of the Medicare “doc fix,” a bipartisan bill that raised reimbursements for physicians while creating new payments models.
The bill passed 92-8 in the Senate, and was passed in the House 392-37.
President Obama quipped during the ceremony, “I shouldn’t say this with John Boehner here, but that’s one way that this legislation builds on the Affordable Care Act. But let’s put that aside for a second.”
Obama thanked “everyone for showing that Republicans and Democrats can come together, put aside partisanship, not just on must-dos, but on things that actually make the country work better.”
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said lawmakers have “shown there is common ground for entitlement reform without tax increases on hardworking Americans.”
“Now we have to build on this common ground to do what needs to be done to save our entitlement programs and solve our spending problem. There is certainly a long way to go, but this is a good step in the right direction,” Boehner said. “It will help seniors have better access to their doctors, encourage patients to think more like consumers, and save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars for decades to come.”
But nobody was paying as much attention to what was being said in the Rose Garden as they were The Kiss:
My Eyes Cannot Unsee This! John Boehner Kissing Nancy Pelosi! pic.twitter.com/SdIWntb9Ut
— Lnonblonde (@Lnonblonde) April 22, 2015
“I’ll be your Nancy Pelosi if you’ll be my John Boehner.” #RejectedTaylorSwiftLyrics pic.twitter.com/sDVEab2Hlx
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) April 22, 2015
Speaker Boehner gives Pelosi a quick kiss on the cheek in the Rose Garden during doc fix reception pic.twitter.com/ftMpw5urVl
— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) April 21, 2015
Settle down, people. John Boehner has kissed Nancy Pelosi before, and he will again. http://t.co/WJNyl3uxk1 pic.twitter.com/qKUlbSCdtI
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlakeWP) April 22, 2015
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