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Reid, Durbin Open To Majority Vote To Beat Health Care Filibuster
As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid works to cobble together the 60 votes he needs to overcome an expected Republican attempt to block a floor vote on health care, there is still one powerful parliamentary weapon he could draw from his back pocket. The process known as budget reconciliation ...
Lieberman Lies To Justify Health Care Filibustering: The Public Option Will Raise Premiums And Increase The Debt
Lieberman Lies To Justify Health Care Filibustering: The Public Option Will Raise Premiums And ...
thinkprogress.org — This afternoon, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) appeared on Fox News to defend his intention to filibuster any... health care reform bill that includes a national public option . Lieberman argued that a public plan would “stifle” the economic ... (more) Lieberman Lies To Justify Health Care Filibustering: The ...
Somebody Buy Joe Lieberman a Puppy
fivethirtyeight.com — The reason this is a little scary for Democrats is because the usual things that serve to... motivate a Congressman don't seem to apply here. Would voting to filibuster the Democrats' health care bill (if it contains a decent public option) endear ... (more) Somebody Buy Joe Lieberman a Puppy
Beck falsely accused Reid of lying about support for public option
mediamatters.org — Following reports that Senate leaders will include a public option in health care legislation, on Fox &... Friends , Glenn Beck falsely suggested that only "35 percent of the population" supported a public option and accused Senate Majority Leader ... (more) Beck falsely accused Reid of lying about support for ...
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Coffee and the Papers: Meanwhile Back In The Senate
Desert Beacon — ... ] The Huffington Post reports that Senator Reid and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) are open to using the reconciliation process, used to enact ...

Reconciliation?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Still an option. ...

Specter Would Support Using Reconciliation To Pass Health Care As A ‘Last, Last, Last Resort’
Think Progress — ... In fact, the top two Democrats in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), have not taken reconciliation off the table in order to pass health care reform. “Sure, it’s always an option,” Reid said on Monday. “The failsafe on this is reconciliation,” Durbin said, but added, “I hope we don’t reach it because you can only do a limited amount of things on reconciliation.” ...

Reid: Reconciliation "Always an Option"
Daily Kos — ... This is the correct answer to the bleating of Joe Lieberman, and Blanche Lincoln, and Ben Nelson. If you don't want to be a part of the most critical domestic policy reform in generations, we can always do it without you. ...

Reid, Durbin Open To Majority Vote To Beat Health Care Filibuster
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed — ... when he announced that he'd be pushing forward with a public health insurance option with an opt-out provision that would give states the right not to participate. ... Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who is in charge of corralling and counting votes, also said that reconciliation is still being considered. "The failsafe on this is reconciliation," Durbin said. "I hope we don't reach it because you can only do a limited amount of things on reconciliation." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Harry Reid and the public option
Crooks and Liars — ... This is the correct answer to the bleating of Joe Lieberman, and Blanche Lincoln, and Ben Nelson. If you don't want to be a part of the most critical domestic policy reform in generations, we can always do it without you. ...

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Reconciliation Here We Come: Lieberman Announces Filibuster Of HCRTalkLeft
In a way, this is good news : Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill. [. . .] "I've told Sen. Reid that if the bill stays as it is now I will vote against cloture,” he said.[. . .] ...