SENATE BILL: ...Mental Health Reform Act of 2013 (Failed)

[DemPGH]

And I completely concur with Nix on this. It seems to me a massive expenditure of money and for what I'm not terribly certain. I mentioned that I can see an anti-cancer bill or anti-cancer research getting caught up in some of these things, but I'm not sure that all of these bills necessarily need to become end-all-be-all measures or treatises, surely this one.

Perhaps with something like this one way to deal with it would be to break it down to something that can be handled and then deal with residual items in amendments or subsequent legislation. I think this bill could have achieved more while being less, so to speak.

[DemPGH]

Look, FWIW, a person can agree or disagree with the veto of the bill, but it was not personal at all. I know that because of the deliberations that went on and the reflection on the bill. What does this mean versus that and the cost of this and the cost of that, and in the end, agree or disagree, folks, a veto of a bill that's too big and too expensive is a valid reason. There can be difference of opinion on the latter point, but the veto was on the perceived merits.

I'm not happy with a recent case into which a lot of work went, but it's yesterday's lunch. The battle will be fought another day. Same here should the veto stand. The administration is not in any shape, manner, or form closing out the issue of mental health - rather, it is attempting to reset, IMO.