By Brian FalerRead the whole thing!
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama may try to push through Congress a health-care overhaul, energy proposals and tax increases by using a partisan tactic that would thwart Republican efforts to block the measures.
The administration and congressional Democrats are debating whether to use a parliamentary procedure called reconciliation to advance some of the biggest items on the president’s agenda. The move would allow Democrats to approve plans to raise taxes by $1 trillion, create a cap-and-trade system to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions, and overhaul health care without a single Republican vote.
“You’re talking about running over the minority, putting them in cement and throwing them into the Chicago River,” said Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican who stepped down last month as Obama’s pick for Commerce secretary. “It takes the minority completely out of the process.”
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Obama May Use Legislative Ploy to Jam Through Health, Tax Bills
Jam through...but Obama said he was going to work across the aisle...be a new kind of President...end partisanship. Here's how he's ending partisanship: He's neutralizing the other party with a "parliamentary procedure."
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