Reid: GOP should 'stop crying' about majority-vote move on healthcare - "Nothing is off the table"

[jefferson_dem]

Reid: GOP should 'stop crying' about majority-vote move on healthcare
By Michael O'Brien - 02/23/10 02:49 PM ET

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told Republicans to "stop crying" about the potential use of a legislative tactic to finish healthcare legislation with a majority vote.

Reid lashed out at the minority Republicans for lamenting the prospects of Democrats using budget reconciliation rules to pass the final elements of their healthcare bill.

"Nothing is off the table," Reid said after Senate Democrats' weekly luncheon. "But realistically, they should stop crying about this. It's been done 21 times before."

Reid pointed to historic uses of the reconciliation process, which allows leaders to bypass the 60-vote threshold usually needed to end a filibuster and instead pass legislation with a majority vote. The bulk of the uses of reconciliation, Reid said, came under Republican control of the Senate.

Republicans have decried the use of the process as partisan and rare, arguing -- as they have for months -- that Democrats should drop their current bill and start over.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/83195-reid-gop-should-stop-crying-about-majority-vote-move-on-healthcare

[Beetwasher]

1. UP OR DOWN VOTE!

C'mon Reid! For cryin' out loud! Start SAYING IT OVER AND OVER!! Yeesh! It's not that difficult.

[tallahasseedem]

2. I'm loving this!

I'm not holding my breath, but one can dream.

[Arkana]

3. I do love "STOP CRYIN'."

[unblock]

4. haha, reconciliation is "partisan and rare" they say, but of course, their filibusters aren't?

oh well, it wouldn't be republican if it wasn't hypocritical.

[Jennicut]

5. Reid actually made sense today. And made fun of Rethugs. Are we sure this is Earth we are on right

now?

[Clio the Leo]

6. HILARIOUS!!! NT

[Clio the Leo]

7. "Are you crying! There's no crying in CONGRESS!!!!"

Couldn't resist one more...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWoD2sQ9LiU

[Enrique]

8. ...

[Cha]

9. Kick