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March 8, 2010
Healthcare and the History of Reconciliation
Topics: Political News and commentariesGetting right down to the bottom line, and contrary to what Democrats and political scientists Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein claim - using reconciliation as an end-around to avoid filibusters is exceedingly rare, having happened at most 7 times since 1980. Of those 7 cases, all were budget or tax measures. In other words, using reconciliation to avoid a supermajority on health care reform would simply be unprecedented.
Posted by Abdul at March 8, 2010 9:47 AM
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