eschatonblog.com - 8/3/2009
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I think I would take even a bad health bill if it got there through reconciliation . The shrieking and wailing from Broder-Land would be sweet, sweet music.
washingtonmonthly.com - 8/2/2009
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washingtonmonthly.com —
THE RECONCILIATION INSURANCE POLICY.... I was talking to
a Senate aide this week, trying to wrap my...
head around the details of the reconciliation process. The staffer conceded that she, too, can get tripped up on how reconciliation works. It...
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The reconciliation insurance policy
WWW.samefacts.com - 8/2/2009
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WWW.samefacts.com —
Finally, finally, people are beginning to see the
possibilities for using budget reconciliation as a means to...
get health care reform -- a strategy I've been advocating for close to a month now. Which is what makes this little nugget from Carl Hulse's ...
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Joke of the Day: Budget Reconciliation and Health Reform
politico.com - 8/3/2009
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politico.com —
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sounds like he's getting
ready to play hardball this fall on health care,...
even if it means forgoing a Finance Committee deal and bypassing a filibuster by using "reconciliation" to push the bill through. More ...
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Schumer hints at 'reconciliation' for health bill
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From Hell's Heart I Attempt This Parliamentary Maneuver at Thee
Whiskey Fire —
... Like I said over at the Cerulean Cherub's place, getting a health care bill passed through reconciliation would be great fun even if it were a crap bill. ...
8/3: Recess Activism
Blogometer —
Liberal bloggers ( Benen , Black , digby , Rosenberg , Willis ) are blasting Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) after he warned that the ads that progressive groups are running against his position on health care reform "would backfire -- and might even derail the entire reform process." Liberal bloggers ( Benen , Zasloff , DougJ , Black ) are discussing the possibility of using the "reconciliation" process to pass health care reform in the Senate. Meanwhile, lefty bloggers ( McCarter , Sudbay ...
Hullabaloo —
... Like I said over at the Cerulean Cherub's place, getting a health care bill passed through reconciliation would be great fun even if it were a crap bill [...] ...
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Reconciliation
balloon-juice.com 8/3/2009 — Rockefeller says he’s for it if it’s the only way:
“If it is a choice between getting a good health care bill and doing it in reconciliation, I will take that in a shot,” Rockefeller said. “What I don’t like ...
Reconciliation: This Changes Everything
blogs.tnr.com 4/23/2009 — Even Republicans seem to be conceding that, as reported here and elsewhere a few weeks ago, the Senate will go along with the House and include reconciliation instructions for health care. Assuming all of us are correct, it means the Democrats will ...
Reconciliation
motherjones.com 2/4/2009 — RECONCILIATION.... Elana Schor reports that Mitch McConnell is being cagey about whether Senate Republicans will filibuster the stimulus bill. Cue McConnell: Our goal is to produce a bill that makes a difference; not to kill the measure. So the ...
Reconciliation, the filibuster, and the rules of the Senate
WWW.samefacts.com 8/20/2009 — If (probably when) Democrats use the budget reconciliation process to pass a chunk of health insurance reform, Republicans are sure to scream "foul." Of course they will be astoundingly hypocritical in doing so, having themselves used the threat of ...
If You Want Health Reform, Reconciliation Must Be On the Table
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/24/2009 —
The debate over the use of the “budget reconciliation” process has taken on a weirdly circular quality. On the one hand, folks say that going through reconciliation will wreck the chances of Republican cooperation. On the other hand, ...
Ezra Klein
- Can Reconciliation Work for Health-Care Reform?
voices.washingtonpost.com 8/18/2009 — Why not Medicare For All, or some form of it, through reconciliation? Other than the obvious of trying to get votes for it. If you can expand Medicare to 55, why not expand it to *everyone* who wants to "buy into it"? Or drop the "buy in" aspect, ...
Truth and Reconciliation
tnr.com 4/20/2009 — 'Reconciliation" means "restoration of harmony." But as a term of art in budgeting, it has become an act of war. President Obama and most Democrats in Congress hope to include health and education reform in reconciliation instructions as part of the ...
: Obama Still Open to Using Reconciliation Process
mydd.com 7/20/2009 — Thanks to everyone for sending me questions to ask President Obama on the topic of healthcare during today's conference call with bloggers. I did manage to send one his way -- whether he is open to using the process of reconciliation to lower the vote ...
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