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To: Dale Baker who wrote (134242)	3/22/2010 4:56:32 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542907

Everything I read about the Senate schedule now is several days of useless crap culminating in a vote between Friday and Sunday (more likely the latter with all the delays the Reps have planned). At the moment, my understanding is that the Reps can throw as many amendments as they like at it in a 20 hour period or so. Then there is one great orgy of voting. Which is time limited as well. Somewhere in all that there will be some theatrics on two fronts: (1) will the Reps find any amendment that will entice enough Dems to vote for it, thus changing the reconciliation bill so it has to go back to the House for one more vote; (2) will the Reps convince the parliamentarian that some element in the reconciliation can't pass the Byrd rules. Thus, if they win, changing the bill such that it has to go back to the House.