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Conrad goes back on his word, will support reconciliation for ObamaCare
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 1:15pm | posted by Jason Pye
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) will support reconciliation for ObamaCare:
The Senate “was not designed to have everything require 60 votes,” Conrad said. “It wasn’t designed to prevent important action on the problems facing the country.” If a supermajority is effectively necessary to pass any piece of legislation, he added, this “puts a great deal of pressure on going to more of a reconciliation process to deal with things.”
…Conrad, for one, didn’t sound like a man with doubts about the idea. He said, “Frankly I think we have to reconsider the rules by which this body is governed,” because the Senate “is in danger of becoming dysfunctional,” and “there’s going to be a building demand in the country to change the system.”
This is a change of heart for Conrad, who previously came out against using this tactic, meant for reconciling budgets, for major policy:
I don’t believe reconciliation was ever intended for this purpose. It doesn’t work well for writing major, substantive legislation.
Well, I guess this is more than a change of heart…that’s a 180 degree turn from his previous position. Are there any Democrats in the Senate with some integrity?
I think there needs to be a post detailing exactly what reconciliation is. After this and previous video with Chris Matthews, it’s quite confusing.
It’s not easy to understand, but I’ll try to get something knocked out this weekend.
Thanks. :)
Go to dickmorris website: it IDs 23 house dems that are weak for reelection….drive those folks into fear by whipping of the districts and nancy has no hope of ever getting to reconcilation ’cause she need at least 6 dems to concur with the senate version …without the senate version passing…obama can’t sign into law and without that there’s nothing to reconcile….kaput goes obamacare.
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