September 2009
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“If Obama agrees to use reconciliation [to pass healthcare reform], he will...”
– David Brooks
Brooks is wrong here. Reconciliation is a procedural manuever thta would allow the bill to pass with a bare majority rather than the 60 votes necessary to stop a filibuster. (Without Ted Kennedy, 50 votes is now a majority.) It’s absurd to insist that a majority of the Senate is the...