Thursday, March 18, 2010

Republicans plot ways to block health reform in Senate

Apparently it won't be over even if the House passes the Senate's bill. Good.

Republicans plot ways to block health reform in Senate - Carrie Budoff Brown and Manu Raju - POLITICO.com: "Democrats might like to think that health care reform is all but a done deal if it clears the House, but the Senate is where Republicans have been plotting for months to sentence it to a painful procedural death.

Republican aides have been mining the Senate’s arcane parliamentary rules for an attack that aims at striking elements both broad and narrow from the bill, weakening the measure and ultimately defeating it. Their goal is to force changes that leave Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) without 51 votes to pass it, or at the very least, that drive it back to the House for a second vote that drags out the process and saps Democratic resolve."

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