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Opinion: Reconciliation Isn't Health Reform Answer

Mar 10th 2010 – 6:30PM
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(March 10) -- The Democrats' plan to pass health care reform using the so-called "reconciliation" process is at odds with both congressional intent and the history of this budgetary practice. And before you dismiss this as just a partisan view intended to stop health reform, let's set the record straight: Arguments...

Obama's Health Plan: Reconciling or Ramming?

By Andrea StoneMar 4th 2010 – 5:17PM
AP

AP

WASHINGTON (March 4) -- Call them irreconcilable differences. President Barack Obama's signal Wednesday that he is done with bipartisanship if it means health care reform is a goner is shining a spotlight on the arcane process known as "budget reconciliation." Not that many here like to use such wonky terms for the...

Background on Reconciliation

Reconciliation (literally to meet again) may variously refer to:

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