Reconciling Reconciliation: An Interview with Robert Dove

By Lester Feder | Leave a Comment

Robert Dove served as Senate parliamentarian until 2001. The O’Neill Institute’s Lester Feder spoke with him about the reconciliation process and its implications for health reform. Robert Dove: First of all, reconciliation was never designed for something like health care. It’s the reason that it wasn’t used on the original Clinton health-care bill. It’s designed […]

Posted in Interview, Legal Issues ; Tagged: budget, parliamentarian, president, reconciliation, secretary, senate.

01.26.10

How to Finish up Health Care Reform: There is Only One Way

By Tim Jost | Leave a Comment

The way forward for health care reform at this moment seems rather murky, indeed, one might say grim. Both the House and the Senate had adopted reform legislation prior to Christmas and the game plan going into January was to try to work out an informal agreement between House and Senate leadership that could be […]

Posted in Legal Issues ; Tagged: budget, committee, democrats, health, legislation, majority, parliamentarian, provisions, reconciliation, reform, republicans, senate.

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