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To: Free ThinkerNY

So, Pres. Obama, how will the Senate Bill pass the House?


10 posted on 02/22/2010 5:01:28 PM PST by Forgiven_Sinner (If you meet people with no brain, no heart and no courage, you are not in KS-You are in the Congress)
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To: Forgiven_Sinner
"So, Pres. Obama, how will the Senate Bill pass the House?"

The theory goes that they (the House & the Senate) will pass a Reconciliation Bill first. Then the House will pass the Senate bill. This would work (in theory), so long as the President signs the Senate bill (passed by the House), then the Reconciliation bill (passed by both Houses). The purpose of the Reconciliation Bill is to change everything in the bill the House doesn't like, and that the Senate couldn't get in the first place because of the filibuster.

Of course, this all presupposes that the Senate and House Parliamentarian will play ball, which of course remains to be seen. Also, that presupposes that the House could now get 217 votes to pass the Reconciliation Bill - again, a very big "if". I don't think that they can get it done in the House, not with the loss of Murtha and Wexler.

21 posted on 02/22/2010 5:09:51 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: Forgiven_Sinner

These bastards are preening for their base!


27 posted on 02/22/2010 5:22:08 PM PST by ontap
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