RSSHealth care: Reconciliation still on table
From: The Washington Times | February 25, 2010
With President Obama's health care bill on the line, lawmakers from both parties are turning their attention to a complicated procedural tool that could allow Senate Democrats to circumvent a Republican filibuster and push the measure to passage. The procedure, known as "reconciliation," has been used rarely on legislation that ultimately passed the Senate by close votes and more often by Republicans than Democrats in the past two decades. But the two parties are spinning different tales about whether reconciliation can be justified for the pending health care overhaul bill. Majority Leader Harry Reid said this week that he hopes ...
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