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Obama sets stage for using budget maneuver to pass health reform

By Alliance Alert

The Hill: "But the more likely scenario is that Republicans will continue to oppose Obama?s plan, and the president later this fall will be able to note he tried to strike a deal with the GOP but could not. That will set up a Democratic argument that Senate leaders have been forced to use a partisan budget tool known as reconciliation to pass a health bill through the Senate by a simple majority, instead of 60 votes. Under the budget plan they passed earlier this year, Democrats could invoke the reconciliation process on Oct. 15."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 11, 2009 (boomark / email).