Byrd Opposed Reconciliation For Clinton's Health Care Proposals

[Rusty5329]

So, there is a video that is getting a lot of attention amongst the right wing nuts.

And yes, the video is not made up, Senator Byrd did counsel President Clinton against using reconciliation to pass health care reform, claiming the reforms were far too massive for that process.

continued with video at http://sumofchange.blogspot.com/2010/03/yes-sen-byrd-stopped-reconciliation-for.html

[WhiteTara]

1. well, he was a segregationist too

and he changed his mind about that nastiness. He's old enough to see the light by now on bipartisanship.

[Florida Blue]

2. I wonder if he is proud of that today.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

3. Did Clinton first get versions of HCR passed by both Houses of Congress, with a

supermajority for HCR in the Senate, leaving to reconciliation only slight changes budgetary in nature?

If not, uour video is irrelevant to today's HCR legislation, isn't it?

[Rusty5329]

6. did you check the link?

That was pretty much the entire point of the post.

[lamp_shade]

4. Obama's "health care reform" passed the Senate without using reconciliation.

[ShortnFiery]

5. No, you must mean Senator Bacchus's Insurance Cartel Charity Bill? That's this Senate Bill HRC. eom

[Rusty5329]

7. exactly the point.

[lamp_shade]

8. Oops. I didn't read the whole thing. Sorry.

[Rusty5329]

9. all good...

I do that sometimes too.