The Limits Of Reconciliation, Then And Now

Ed Driscoll | 1:26 PM on March 10, 2010

From Naked Emperor News, “Uncovered Shocker: Sen. Byrd Single-Handedly Stopped President Clinton From Using Reconciliation,” according to a speech that Byrd gave on the Senate floor in 2001:

As for today? Ed Morrissey asks, “Does Obama have to sign Senate bill into law before reconciliation can happen?”

Meanwhile, as David Harsanyi notes, if the current efforts and Rahming through ObamaCare suceeds, its repeal is unlikely not matter what sort of gains the GOP has in the fall, part of the strategy the left is counting on.

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