Mechanics, Politics of Budget Reconciliation Spark Debate
Members of Congress and health care reform stakeholders are locked in a heated debate over the prospect of using the budget reconciliation process as part of an effort to enact health care reform legislation. Reconciliation would allow the Senate to pass modifications to its reform legislation with a simple majority vote.
- "Reconciliation and Health Care Reform" (Rehm, "The Diane Rehm Show," WAMU, 3/1).