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Opinion: Reconciliation Isn't Health Reform Answer

(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?

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...