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Reconciliation Is Back In The Health Care Discussion
By Carole on Dec 16, 2009
In mid-September I wrote about the possibility that Democrats would use a legislative process known as reconciliation to pass health care reform. For those unfamiliar with the term in this context, it is a deceptively benign sounding word that means ramming hugely unpopular change down the throats of the American people. Since the Democratic caucus did not emerge from their command appearance at the White House today with 60 votes in hand, it's time again to remember that employing the reconciliation process to pass Obamacare would be, as Senator Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire) said last fall, a "bastardization of the legislative process." (source)
