About the same time in Wisconsin, representative Paul d. Ryan, the architect of the Republican budget proposal, is facing a packed town meeting, occasional boos and a skeptical public as he tried to draw on the justification of his party for the redesign of the programme of health insurance for retirees.
In a church theater here Tuesday evening, a meeting between representative Allen b. West and some of his voters begins on a chaotic note, with the members of the audience quickly on their feet, some heckling him and others vociferously defending him. "You're not going to intimidate me", said Mr. West.
After 10 days of trying to sell components on their plan to overhaul Medicare, Republican House in several districts appear to be more and more concerned about issues and defensive anger, in which voters and a barrage of new attacks from Democrats and their allies.
The new approach proposed Medicare - a key piece of a budget that Republican leaders have hailed as a brave effort to budgetary problems in the long term of the nation - has been a constant theme in town-hall-style sessions and other public gatherings during a break from the Congress two weeks which have provided the first opportunity for legislators to assess the reaction of the plan.
An example of the response appeared Tuesday as representative Daniel Webster, a freshman Republican from Florida, before a crowd of turbulent at a packed city to Orlando meeting where some people, apparently organized or encouraged by Liberal groupsbrandished signs saying "Hands off health insurance" and demanded that it rather "tax rich."
Mr. Webster, shown in the video station WFTV, sought to defuse the situation by saying that any change was years of absence and that current retirees would not see a difference. "Not a senior citizen is harmed by this budget", he said, noting that her granddaughter again was "seeking a bankrupt country."
Under the Republican proposal, Medicare would be converted to a program that would subsidize health coverage for retirees than provide coverage directly, a change which say many Democrats might leave the elderly people with inadequate health care as costs rise in the long term. The Republican budget would also be Medicaid, who pays for the nursing home residents with low income, transform a grant to States program, raising the possibility that States, under pressure from budget, would be reduced on the cover.
Democrats face political pressure as well to show that they can bring spending under control and slow the growth of the national debt, and there are cracks in the party to back tax increases and raise the ceiling of the national debt without concrete measures to bring down the budget deficit.
Before the release of the proposal of Mr. Ryan, Republican expressed their confidence that public opinion had turned in their favour, and on Tuesday House leaders sought to reassure Republicans that their approach to budget should ultimately carry the day. Led by Chairman John a. Boehner of Ohio, Republicans held a conference call, urging the members of the House to tell voters that he is plan expenditures of the administration of the cost of jobs Obama and ration health care.
Officials familiar with the call said that the legislators met did not appear alarmed by the response that they, and that Mr. Ryan told his Republican compatriots, he succeeded in making the case that Medicare would make bankruptcy without intervention. Mr. Ryan said with his voters that those 55 or Medicare currently would be still covered under the existing program.
But news reports noted that Mr. Ryan himself face a mixed Tuesday response that it has held meetings strained with the voters, of which some were repressed due to the overflow crowds. This is another indication that the Republicans still have a huge sale work to do on their budget, especially for older voters tend to turn out to vote at rates higher than younger people.
"I think that what we have right now working on Medicare are a bunch of clowns, Washington", said Robert Murphy, 73, a retired to Fort Lauderdale. "I think that they should leave Medicare." "But I know that they can not leave the way it is."
Meeting of the West Mr. Tuesday night here, it takes only written questions submitted by the public. Motions have been largely friendly, but some people pipe noisily on Medicare, accusing him of making misleading remarks. Several were escorted out by security.
Democrats and their allies are stepping up their efforts to organize opposition at public events. They hope to put the Republicans on their heels as Republicans had Democrats at town-hall-style angry meetings conducted during the review of the right to health.
"We have said from the moment where the gavel came down on the vote at the end of Medicare us would hold responsible for every day in every sense,", said the representative Steve Israel of New York, Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "It is precisely what we do." We encourage everyone to attend these meetings. ?
Democrats and other interest groups are mobilizing a campaign that includes automatic telephone calls, radio and commercials on television and events to keep the pressure on Republicans.?The Americans United for change, a Liberal Group, was automated in 23 districts Republican House calls and commercials in four districts of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, in which an advertiser said that a budget approved by the Assembly is tantamount to "ending the Medicare therefore millionaires can obtain tax relief."
Republicans began to strike this week, with efforts in the districts of conservative Democrats to change the object of the Medicare Federal overall spending. A new advertising radio against Representative Mike Ross, Democrat of Arkansas, paid for by the Republican National Committee, tells Arkansans that he would continue "to spend your money recklessly."
When they begin a long battle for public opinion on budget issues, many Republicans say that much of the outrage at their meetings comes liberal democratic plants sent by MoveOn.org and other groups.
"My town halls are being disrupted by the Democrats,", said representative Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania, whose meetings have been peppered with complaints about Republican policies. "They are apparently sent to us to do so." I'm not sensing that the public in General is angry on Medicare reform. When I explain that the people over 55 years of age are not affected it is almost a sigh of relief. "He added:"I will not do something different." ?
Jennifer Steinhauer reported Fort Lauderdale and Carl Hulse in Washington.
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