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2/23/2010
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) began to make the case on Tuesday for using a majority-vote process to move the final piece of health care reform through the Senate and he slammed the procedure's GOP critics. Known as budget reconciliation, the maneuver requires 51 votes and can't be filibustered.
The GOP has been demanding that Democrats take reconciliation off the table in advance of a bipartisan health care summit on Thursday.
"I would recommend they go back and look at history. Since 1981, reconciliation has been used 21 times," Reid told reporters after the weekly lunch with his Democratic caucus.
It doesn't matter what the people want.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/23/reid-gop-should-stop-cryi_n_473572.html
Reconciliation gives Democrats a method to jam Healthcare through.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) began to make the case on Tuesday for using a majority-vote process to move the final piece of health care reform through the Senate and he slammed the procedure's GOP critics. Known as budget reconciliation, the maneuver requires 51 votes and can't be filibustered.
The GOP has been demanding that Democrats take reconciliation off the table in advance of a bipartisan health care summit on Thursday.
"I would recommend they go back and look at history. Since 1981, reconciliation has been used 21 times," Reid told reporters after the weekly lunch with his Democratic caucus.
It doesn't matter what the people want.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/23/reid-gop-should-stop-cryi_n_473572.html
Reconciliation gives Democrats a method to jam Healthcare through.