Senate Democratic Leadership Will Pass Health Care Reform “By Any Legislative Means Necessary” [View All]

Source: ABC

Senate Democratic Leadership Will Pass Health Care Reform “By Any Legislative Means Necessary”

August 19, 2009 4:07 PM

Amidst questions of whether or not any Senate Republicans will support a health care reform bill, Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., today said that the “White House and the Senate Democratic leadership still prefer a bipartisan bill.”

The Reid spokesman said that “neither the White House nor the leadership have made a decision to pursue reconciliation,” the somewhat controversial legislative process by which a bill is introduced in such a manner so that it requires merely 50 votes instead of 60 to proceed to a vote, thus removing the threat of filibuster.

Manley said that “we will not make a decision to pursue reconciliation until we have exhausted efforts to produce a bipartisan bill.”

“However,” he cautioned, “patience is not unlimited and we are determined to get something done this year by any legislative means necessary.”

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/08/senate-democratic-leadership-will-pass-health-care-reform-by-any-legislative-means-necessary.html

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another link CNN:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/19/reid-spox-patience-is-not-unlimited/