Senate Democrats Plot New Strategy, Consider Reconciliation To Pass Health Bill - Kaiser Health News: "Senate Democrats are increasingly considering using budget reconciliation — which would need a simple majority of 51 votes — to pass health care reform without Republican support, The New York Times reports.
'After consulting experts in Senate rules and procedure, the Democrats said they were increasingly confident that they could legislate creation of a public plan in a way that would withstand challenges expected from Republicans. Appearing Sunday on the NBC News program Meet the Press, Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, said a public insurance plan was 'essential to getting the costs down, which is our No. 1 problem.' … Mr. Schumer said it was 'looking less and less likely' that Republicans would support Democratic proposals to subsidize coverage for tens of millions of the uninsured' (Pear, 8/23).
Reuters on using reconciliation: ''The fact of the matter is, that if they use that, it would be an abuse of the process,' Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch said on… 'Meet the Press'' (Rucker, 8/23)."
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