I think the plan is for the House to amend the Senate bill, pass it, and send it back to the Senate. The Senate will use reconciliation to consider the House amendments, and then send the corrected bill back to the House for final approval.
I thought that if the bill requires Senate reconciliation, the Republicans will stall it indefinitely.
I’m under the impression the Leftists wish to use trickery to avoid the Senate step, sending the bill from the House to the White House.
That can’t be done. In order for the reconciliation process to START, the House has to PASS the Senate bill EXACTLY. They can’t amend a bill the Senate sends them and return it to the Senate. If they do that, it is considered a new bill and the 60 vote rule applies. ONLY if they pass the SAME bill can the Senate then act to ‘reconcile’ it.
So the Senate is going to take out the language for funding of abortions...some Senators won’t like that....
Not a chance. Thirty minutes after it's passed in the House it will be on Zero's desk and thirty minutes after that he'll be calling a press conference to announce "a great day in America" and then they'll drop it like a rock and you won't hear about Obamacare for a year. Believe it.
I would be very afraid of this process. Once the House passes the Senate bill and Obummer signs it the game is over and the American people will have lost.
Unless Stupak and the gang get sandbagged. Once the House passes Commiecare™, Hussein can then sign it.
The House cannot amend the Senate bill. It has to pass the House “as is” amd then go to Obozo to be signed. Then the reconciliation process can happen. The only way the bill can be changed is with reconciliation. I don’t believe the abortion language can be changed with that process.