Harry Reid is finally reconciled to using reconciliation:
Democrats will finish their health reform efforts within the next two months by using a majority-vote maneuver in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said.
Reid said that congressional Democrats would likely opt for a procedural tactic in the Senate allowing the upper chamber to make final changes to its healthcare bill with only a simple majority of senators, instead of the 60 it takes to normally end a filibuster. [...]
The majority leader said that while Democrats have a number of options, they would likely use the budget reconciliation process to pass a series of fixes to the first healthcare bill passed by the Senate in November.
For more on what this process takes, watch the video from the Rachel Maddow Show here.
And here are Ezra Klein and realist Lawrence O’Donnell (aka Debbie Downer) discussing reconciliation, along with the public option, with Keith Olbermann:
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O’Donnell explains what this will really take, in great detail.
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