Conference to reconcile House and Senate health care bills?
There is a lot of talk about the possibility that procedural rules may be exercised that would allow (or force) the House to vote on the Senate’s version of the health care bill without the chance to negotiate its contents in conference. I started asking about that around the Hill today.
Representative Grijalva told me that the Progressive Caucus doesn’t always find it simple to reach consensus, but at their meeting last night, they agreed that at a minimum, they want to see conference.
I talked to Dick Durbin (see video later); he said that so far as he knows, nobody in the Senate is insisting that conference should be avoided.
I also wondered what Republicans in the House thought of the idea. When I saw Congressman (and Doctor) Boozman of Arkansas, I asked him what he thought. Video below, along with a few words from Congressman Rush Holt.
[...] the chambers go thru the traditional reconciliation of two different bills, or whether they opt for a conference where Pelosi persuades her own to simply embrace the Senate bill as written, it’s going to be Herculean to be on the POTUS desk before the State of the Union. This gives [...]
The Baltimore Reporter
27 Dec 09 at 10:27 pm
[...] the chambers go thru the traditional reconciliation of two different bills, or whether they opt for a conference where Pelosi persuades her own to simply embrace the Senate bill as written, it’s going to be Herculean to be on the POTUS desk before the State of the Union. This gives time [...]
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[...] the chambers go thru the traditional reconciliation of two different bills, or whether they opt for a conference where Pelosi persuades her own to simply embrace the Senate bill as written, it’s going to be Herculean to be on the POTUS desk before the State of the Union. This gives [...]
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