Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Senate Democratic Leadership Will Pass Health Care Reform “By Any Legislative Means Necessary” - Political Punch

Senate Democratic Leadership Will Pass Health Care Reform “By Any Legislative Means Necessary” - Political Punch: "Amidst questions of whether or not any Senate Republicans will support a health care reform bill, Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., today said that the “White House and the Senate Democratic leadership still prefer a bipartisan bill.”

The Reid spokesman said that “neither the White House nor the leadership have made a decision to pursue reconciliation,” the somewhat controversial legislative process by which a bill is introduced in such a manner so that it requires merely 50 votes instead of 60 to proceed to a vote, thus removing the threat of filibuster.

Manley said that “we will not make a decision to pursue reconciliation until we have exhausted efforts to produce a bipartisan bill.”"

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