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Sebelius: Reconciliation Still On The Table
Daily Kos —
From The Hill: At a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on her nomination to HHS, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) asserted that although Obama would prefer that health reform be bipartisan, he is not ready to tie his own hands. "There is an interest in not taking any tools off the table," Sebelius said in response to a request by committee ranking member Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) that she reject reconciliation. Enzi replied that if Democrats use reconciliation, which would enable them to pass a ...
BREAKING (Franken-Coleman): ECC Rules!
Firedoglake —
... But this was all expected. What will be truly interesting will be if Harry Reid keeps his word and tries to seat Al Franken tomorrow, or if he'll wait until after the last of the absentee ballots are counted next week. If he does, he'll have to use the nuclear option to do it -- but as Kathleen Sebelius has already stated, the N.O. is on the table anyway in order to get Obama's budget passed. ...
41 GOP Senators (That's All of Them) Sign Letter Against Budget Reconciliation
Weekly Standard Blog —
... ) is signed by all 41 GOP senators. They urge House and Senate leadership (and the Chairmen and ranking House and Senate Budget Committee members) not to use budget reconciliation in the healthcare process and that doing so would "make it difficult, if not impossible, to gain broad bipartisan support for the effort." The letter comes after Obama's latest HHS nominee (and latest tax cheat nominee) Kathleen Sebelius told a Senate committee that the administration would not take the controversial procedural tool off the table. ...
