Republican Congressional leadership, including Rep. John Boehner (L), Sen. Jon Kyl (2nd R) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R) speak about the upcoming healthcare summit with President Obama
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Without enough votes in the Senate to revote on a modified bill and pass health care reform, the Democratic Party may resort to using a 1974 budgetary law known as reconciliation. The process protects the bill from filibusters that require a 60-vote majority to end debate, and would instead allow the bill to pass by a simple majority.
Joining us to discuss the history of reconciliation and why it is so controversial are Todd Zwillich, The Takeaway's Washington correspondent and Julian Zelizer, a congressional historian at Princeton University and the author of “Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security, From World War II to the War on Terrorism.”
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Its Put Up Or Shut Up Time: I Challenge the Republican Senate-Congress, Fox News, Beck, Hannity, Gingrich, Pawlenty, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin Mitch McConnell, Barasso and Republican Hate AM-Radio...
Since You Claim You're "Against Government Run-Socialized Medicine" Create a Bill to Get Rid Of All Government Run Health Care Systems in this Country & Lets Rely on [Private Health Care Insurances] and Get Rid Of Government Run-Socialize Medicine, such as....
1. Medi-Care
2. VA: Hospitals
3. DOD: Dept Of Defense
4. SCHIP: Health Care Insurance For The Poor. Sponsored By Both [D] Senator Jay Rockefeller & [R] Orrin Hatch
5. Indian Health Services.
6. Medi-Caid: Federally Funded & State Administered Health Care.
Other than That its Clearly Obvious, Whose Party is Working For and On Behalf of Big Health Care Insurance Companies and Using Fear, Hate, Dread, Doom and Gloom Tactics to Kill Heath Care Reform.
ya really need to read the wack outs on NOLA.COM
--- YES WE CAN!!
by L9SaintInTucker, 3/2/10 15:52 ET
Re: Reconciliation by L9SaintInTucker, 3/2/10 --
NO YOU WON`T !!!
by smittytoo22, 3/2/10 18:54 ET
Re: Reconciliation by smittytoo22, 3/2/10
and now the biggest racists among them...
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no matter how hard Modern1 tries to be civil this thing insists on being an azz
It seems to me that the subject of healthcare reform, more than almost all others, exposes the extreme one-sidedness and Obama-cheerleading of The Takeaway.
Tod Zwillich mentioned it only in the brefest passing; back in 2005, with Democrats filibustering Bush judicial nominees (including an African-American woman, a white woman, and a Hispanic male), the Senate voices were simply reversed; Democrats were championing the rights of a Senate minority to filibuster, and Republicans were talking about a "nuclear option."
If The Takeaway had wanted dramatic audio, it could haev drawn from the soundtrack of this astonishing video compilation:
http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-dems-in-2005-51-vote-nuclear-option-is-arrogant-power-grab-against-the-founders-intent/
It is now the cause of ObamaCare opposition that is broad-based and bipartisan. It is an ever-shrinking group of liberal Demcrats that are trying to push it through. I don't think it will happen. Not because Republicans oppose it. Rather, because many Democrats can't support it. Pelosi had trouble finding enough Democrats to support the House bill. Reid had trouble finding enough Democrats to support the Senate bill. Now the two of them are finding it impossible to get the two bills to agree, and then find support for any compromise bill.
Don't blame Republicans for stopping the two bills. Even many Democrats are dissatisfied. If the Democrats had their own clear majority, the House could pass the Senate bill, tomorrow, and be done with it. They don't have such a majority. Not even a simple majority.
hate your show
They might use reconciliation to push through this bill in the Senate, but they then have to get enough votes in the House, let's hope they can't get them: let's hope the pro-life Democrats don't buckle. President Obama's current bill funds abortion even more thant the Senate bill did.
While this morning's discussion was excellent, it failed to highlight one salient fact. Health Reform WAS passed with a so-called super majority in the Senate. When the Democrats realistically concluded that they could not pass a revised bill with 60 votes, they decided to initiate reconciliation in order to address the budgetary issues exposed by the House and Senate bills. So it is not even as if they are by-passing the 60-vote measurement.
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