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ClearPresentDanger Donating Member (139 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 04:06 PM
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Just 7 people are preventing health care reform. JUST SEVEN.
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Correct me if I am wrong:
HR 3200 has passed the house.
The whip count in the senate is 43.
Reid can introduce HR 3200 whenever he wants (I don't know the senate number of the bill).
They get 7 more votes, that's 50 with Biden to break the tie.
If they don't change a word of HR 3200, there's no reconciliation, it goes straight to Obamas desk.
JUST. SEVEN.

*I don't know if HR 3200 is revenue neutral (if it costs money, it would take 60 votes..or is it 66?) But it doesn't matter. Once it's signed by the President it, it's law until overturned by the courts. The admin could stall the case for years if it wanted. Or the congress could make it legal retroactively. They've already had practice making things legal retroactively, with the military commissions act.
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