Is there a difference in “appearing” and “attending”? – PB/TK
McConnell promises women can take part in healthcare meetings – By Alexander Bolton l May 12 2017
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has provided assurance to GOP colleagues that women will be invited to attend future meetings of a special working group tasked with negotiating healthcare reform.
The assurances made in private, backed up by a public statement earlier in the week, have quelled concern in the GOP conference that the rollout of the working group would be derailed by controversy over gender politics.
McConnell invited three women Republican senators to attend a Tuesday meeting of the working group, which Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a lawmaker concerned about Medicaid cuts, attended.
A Thursday working group meeting was attended by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who is worried about Iowa’s last major ObamaCare insurer threatening to pull out of the state market.
“The leader has assured us that at least one of the women will attend all of the meetings going forward,” said one GOP lawmaker.
Continue to thehill.com article: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/333052-mcconnell-promises-women-will-be-in-healthcare-meetings
