Just read this on the Huffington Post...
Speaking minutes after President Barack Obama met with a group of bipartisan lawmakers from the Senate Finance Committee, spokesman Robert Gibbs stressed that the administration's preference was to get a health care bill passed through normal measures. But, in one of the strongest indications to date that the president is willing to circumvent Republicans, Gibbs affirmatively stated that the use reconciliation (a move that allows bills to be considered on an up-or-down basis) was on the White House's mind.
This is good and bad news...good because some of the Health Care Reform would happen, and bad that due to how reconciliation works - I believe it's mainly to help pass financial budget bills, but if I am wrong, please correct me - so some of the bill could be stripped due to the rules.
We'll have to wait and see, but I'm glad the President is not discouraging it and is willing to support it, should it come down to that.
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