Tuesday 1 September 2009

GOP plans obstruction campaign against reconciliation

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/56897-gop-objections-await-healthcare-plan

Sen. Judd Gregg has hundreds of procedural objections ready for a healthcare plan Democrats want to speed through the Senate....Gregg (N.H.), the senior Republican on the Budget Committee, told the Hill in a recent interview that Republicans will wage a vicious fight if Democrats try to circumvent Senate rules and use a budget maneuver to pass a trillion dollar healthcare plan with a simple majority....Gregg said that Republicans could file “hundreds” of points of order objections to the bill, each one requiring 60 votes to waive....Gregg said the only way for the so-called public option to have the necessary budgetary impact to warrant procedural protection would be if the program were “very aggressive in setting rates, price controls and rationing,” an option that might cause conservative Blue Dog Democrats in the House to bolt.

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