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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (552250)2/26/2010 11:11:46 AM
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FYI. Here's info on reconciliation statistics. So Reid is correct in saying that the GOP uses it most often to ram bills through when they are in power, but I'm thinking that on this specific issue, with the Dems having already lost the propaganda war, it would be a strategic blunder. Ramming it through only works when you are ahead in the propaganda war.

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By our count, eight of the reconciliation bills were initiated by a Democratic-controlled Congress. The rest, 14, were done by a Republican-controlled Congress.

So by that measure, Reid is on target.

"It's a legitimate argument," said Thomas Mann, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. "And Reid is absolutely right. It has been used a lot, and more by Republicans than Democrats."

politifact.com
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