Senate Parliamentarian: President Must Sign Health Care Bill Into Law Before Budget Fixes Begin
| By Dave Harding, ProgressOhio - Mar 11, 2010 3:32:17 PM ET |
If the reports coming out of the Republican Senate Caucus are true then the Senate Parliamentarian stated that the House must pass the Senate Bill, the President must sign it and then the Bill is available for budgetary fixes by a majority vote under Reconciliation.
The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress’ original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday.
The Senate Parliamentarian’s Office was responding to questions posed by the Republican leadership. The answers were provided verbally, sources said.
House Democratic leaders have been searching for a way to ensure that any move they make to approve the Senate-passed $871 billion health care reform bill is followed by Senate action on a reconciliation package of adjustments to the original bill. One idea is to have the House and Senate act on reconciliation prior to House action on the Senate’s original health care bill.
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