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Following yesterday's summit, top House Democrats have been giving mixed signals on whether the Senate would have to act first in order to pass a health care bill.
In MSNBC appearances, House Majority Whip James Clyburn and House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller both signaled a willingness for the House to act first.
But then Speaker Nancy Pelosi sung a different tune.
TPM reports:
"It's up to them," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at her weekly press conference today, referring to the Senate.
Pelosi wants the answer to a few questions before she can proceed. "One, what is the substance. Secondly, what is the Senate able to do with a simple majority. And then we will act on that," she said.
On substance, Pelosi needs the Senate's affordability provisions strengthened. She wants the final legislation to close the prescription-drug donut-hole for seniors, to be stripped of the Nebraska Medicaid deal, and for the tax structure of the bill to be moved away from the controversial excise tax.
However, the House can't act, she noted, until "we see what the Senate will be able to do."
The problem as I see it is that even if Harry Reid were to assure Pelosi that the Senate could pass some sort of reconciliation bill to appease House members, it would be impossible to know ahead of time what they'd actually be able to do through reconciliation. The way the process works, it's subject to a series of rulings by the Senate parlimentarian that can't be predicted ahead of time.
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martin j smith| 2.26.10 @ 1:52PM
The democrat Party performance at the "summit would be a grade of " F". And, most viewers know the truth: This thing was phoney fro the start and, if Jamming government healthcare " is the route of the Dems, they will be burned toast. They might do it anyway because Obama, their dear leader's ego is so big that it is larger than the population of China. But we'll see who blinks.
Walt| 2.26.10 @ 2:45PM
The Summit did accomplish its purpose - fix blame on Republicans. If the Democrats can't pass health care, they want the Republicans to get the blame. They may also use this as a pretext to do away with the 60 vote cloture rule (fillibuster) in the Senate. That would be a good second best for them. They know they will loose seats in November, but they should be able to hang onto a bare majority. With the cloture rule abolished, they can still ram their agenda through.
ggoblue| 2.26.10 @ 7:42PM
the republicans will get the 'credit' not the blame.
Dave B| 2.26.10 @ 2:46PM
The Democrats showed that they're shallow politicians that speak in cliche's and their only weapon seems to be lame anecdotes. The Republicans came prepared and showed up for a real meeting to exchange ideas. And of course our President was shown to be the narcissistic, hollow "talk machine" with thin skin who reverts to insults when challenged.
martin j smith| 2.27.10 @ 8:26AM
Here is my view of the summit( so called in quotes ):
Republicans won Democrat Party lost.
Democrat party & Obama will sulk and have reconcilation tantrum( or try to )
The majority of voters already opposed to Government Health Care will grow even further.
Even newspeople who are defintely not on the left agree the Dems lost the highground. Obama, Reid and other participants looked bad.
The fight is not over, but the so called summit was a win for anti-government taker people.
One more more thing, did you hear that in a recent poll, a majority of Americans feel government is taking their rights away ? So apparently most Americans fear bigg government. Funny thing ?
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