Specter Considering Ramming Health Care Through Congress Four Months After Ruling It Out
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Allentown, PA – Four months after telling Pennsylvanians that he would oppose using reconciliation to ram health care legislation through Congress, Senator Arlen Specter is now refusing to rule it out. Reconciliation is a procedural tactic that will allow Congress to pass health care legislation with a simple majority instead of the sixty votes needed to withstand a filibuster.
Then: Specter: I am opposed to reconciliation to be used for health care for any other substantive legislative issue. (April 28, 2009)
Now: Specter: As a very last, last, last resort, if you can’t get anything else, I would consider it. (August 23, 2009, Fox News Sunday).
