Wednesday, January 4, 2017

The Parliamentary Tactic That Could Obliterate Obamacare - The New York Times

The Parliamentary Tactic That Could Obliterate Obamacare - The New York Times: Republicans hope to repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act using an expedited procedure known as budget reconciliation.

The process is sometimes called arcane, but it has been used often in the past 35 years to write some of the nation’s most important laws. “Reconciliation is probably the most potent budget enforcement tool available to Congress for a large portion of the budget,” the Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan arm of Congress, has said.

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