Health Reform

Using Reconciliation to Enact Health Reform Is Not a Misuse of the Process

"The President and Democratic congressional leaders have determined that the best way to enact comprehensive health reform in the face of solid Republican opposition is to use the congressional reconciliation process to make a limited number of changes to the health reform bill that the Senate passed in December.

"Despite charges by congressional Republicans and conservative pundits to the contrary, this use of reconciliation to help enact health reform legislation would not be unprecedented or a misuse of the reconciliation process."  Read more

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