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I assume what is going on right now is a poll of the House NO votes and the arm-twisted YES votes (from the voting for the original House Bill) to see what changes they will require to the already passed Senate Bill, via the reconciliation scheme, to make it acceptable to them.

Zeroing out abortion funding in strong language is going to be on that list for a lot of the House Dems. Will the Senate accept that change? I doubt it. Can you implement that change via the reconciliation process? I doubt it.

And are there other changes that the House wants that the Senate doesn't and might not be implementable in any case? You betcha.

And note the comment in the article: a lot of the YES vote Dems would like a second chance to vote NO and take that home to their constituents. Well Nancy is not going to be that kind. A vote that failed would be a slap in the face of Obama. Nice little Nancy would never do that.