Schumer wants all-Senate meeting on health care

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants the entire Senate to meet next week to discuss health care, as Democrats push Republicans to drop their effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Schumer sent Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a letter on Friday asking for an all-senators meeting to talk about the GOP legislation, which hasn't been finalized, adding both parties "need to come together to find solutions to America's challenges."

"Please accept our invitation to sit down together in the old Senate Chamber so we can hear your plans and discuss how to make health care more affordable and accessible," Schumer wrote.

Republicans have been negotiating their health care bill behind closed doors during policy lunches, as well as meetings convened by McConnell and involving roughly a dozen GOP senators.

No Democratic senator is expected to support the GOP bill, but Schumer argued that "we all owe it to our constituents to meet to discuss your potential legislation that would profoundly impact so many American lives."

"The U.S. Senate has long been considered the world's greatest deliberative body and, as members of that body, we should each support open and robust debate. That is why we are dismayed at the reports that there will be no public hearings on your proposed changes to the American health care system," he wrote.

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