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Senator @tedcruz Found an Overlooked 1974 Rule That Could Be a Real Game-changer for Repealing Obamacarehttps://t.co/4tCGWcIrpQ—; Independent Journal (@TheIJR) March 11, 2017
Senator @tedcruz Found an Overlooked 1974 Rule That Could Be a Real Game-changer for Repealing Obamacare.
According to Cruz, however, a provision in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 would allow Republicans to both drastically increase the scope of their new health care reform bill and still let it fall under reconciliation by essentially bypassing the parliamentarian and leaving that decision up to Vice President Pence.
As Cruz put it:
“Under the Budget Act of 1974, which is what governs reconciliation, it is the presiding officer, the vice president of the United States, who rules on what’s permissible on reconciliation and what is not.
That’s a conversation I’ve been having with a number of my colleagues.”-—Per Indedent Journal Review.
Ya, that’s already made the rounds.
It says “you can fit anything in Reconciliation if you ignore the Senate Parliamentarian.”
Everyone knows that’s just a mechanism intended to destroy the filibuster. An attempt to destroy the filibuster could not get even 50 votes. Conservatives will not support that.
It’s a non starter. Pence laughed it off, as he should.
That was already pointed out above. It’s the same as blowing up the Senate rules. The problem with blowing up the Senate rules is the democrats will have the green light to do the same when they control Congress in the future.
Cruz is reckless here.
The Administration must play hardball meaning prison. See #61 for a hardball outline.
And note, many are using the term ‘repeal’ when in effect they are referring to a wrecking, a demolition, a gutting, a busting through a reconciliation process. The term repeal refers to passing a law to take down a law. Repeal gets rid of the law. Reconciliation gets rid of the funding but leaves the law in place.