The Republicans will try anything they can in the Senate this week to avoid the rest of the Health Care law to go through… so far they do not have the Senate parliamentarian behind them.
Here’s a clip from Bloomberg:
March 23 (Bloomberg) — The Senate parliamentarian dealt
Republicans a setback in their bid to derail the Democratic
health-care overhaul package, a spokesman for Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell said. |
Parliamentarian Alan Frumin issued informal guidance to
Republicans yesterday that he doesn’t agree with them that a
proposed tax on high-end health insurance plans violates Senate
budget rules, said Don Stewart, a spokesman for McConnell, a
Kentucky Republican. Frumin couldn’t immediately be reached for
comment. |
Republicans said the so-called Cadillac plan tax has an
impact on the Social Security trust fund that violates the 1974
Budget Act. |
Under the rules, the reconciliation measure can pass with a
simple majority of 51 votes. Most legislation in the Senate is
subjected to vote-delaying filibusters by opponents, which take
60 votes to overcome. |
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they will need to try harder