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So,
will the senate's Grand Kleegle stop Obamacare
reconciliation? Why no, because this time the deficit is
being reduced.
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I
believed then, as now, that the Senate should debate the health reform
bill under regular rules, which it did. The result of that debate was
the passing of a comprehensive health care reform bill in the Senate by
a 60-vote supermajority.
I continue to support the budget reconciliation process for deficit
reduction. The entire Senate- or House- passed health care bill could
not and would not pass muster under the current reconciliation rules,
which were established under my watch.
Yet a bill structured to reduce deficits by, for example, finding
savings in Medicare or lowering health care costs, may be consistent
with the Budget Act, and appropriately considered under reconciliation.
With all due respect, the Daily Mail’s hyperbole about “imposing
government control,” acts of “disrespect to the American people” and
“corruption” of Senate procedures resembles more the barkings from the
nether regions of Glennbeckistan than the “sober and second thought” of
one of West Virginia’s oldest and most respected daily newspapers. [Full]
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