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To: koan who wrote (66448)	12/17/2009 11:23:59 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 149317

Howard Dean says reconciliation is very doable. So do it and craft a good bill that reigns in the insurance companies.! They keep backing away from reconciliation.<< And I do not know why? Howard Dean is solid as the rock of Gibraltor. There is a puzzle here and I have not heard the answer??? No on seems mor solid than Dean. In fact I wish he were president to be honest. As I understand it, health care reform falls under the Byrd Rule and so can't be voted on through reconcilation. Byrd Rule Further information: Sunset provision: The Budget Act and the Byrd Rule Reconciliation generally involves legislation that changes the budget deficit (or conceivably, the surplus). The "Byrd Rule" (2 U.S.C. § 644, named after Democratic Senator Robert Byrd) was adopted in 1985 and amended in 1990 to outline which provisions reconciliation can and cannot be used for. The Byrd Rule defines a provision to be "extraneous" (and therefore ineligible for reconciliation) in six cases: (1) if it does not produce a change in outlays or revenues; (2) if it produces an outlay increase or revenue decrease when the instructed committee is not in compliance with its instructions; (3) if it is outside the jurisdiction of the committee that submitted the title or provision for inclusion in the reconciliation measure; (4) if it produces a change in outlays or revenues which is merely incidental to the non-budgetary components of the provision; (5) if it would increase the deficit for a fiscal year beyond those covered by the reconciliation measure, though the provisions in question may receive an exception if they in total in a Title of the measure net to a reduction in the deficit; and (6) if it recommends changes in Social Security. en.wikipedia.org

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