reconciliation proposals, these packages, but he knows better than anybody that they don t have the votes unless they move them together. right. taking it apart, as you point out, more detail in a cheesecake factory menu than either of the proposals as they exist right now. neither are bills. they are both ideas getting worked through. the bipartisan proposal especially is top line numbers, but the staff are hard at work at it even now, because the time line here is so short. mitch mcconnell has known for months that the reconciliation bill is coming, and he has talked about it on the floor, and answered questions about it at press conferences, and he knew that bipartisan deal might be necessary, because as he has said himself the democrats had the votes to do everything they wanted to do on the reconciliation basis. he understands the real politic on this, and this is why he wants congressional leaders to
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reconciliation basis meaning they would only need 51 votes in the senate as opposed to 60. this is something that s very controversial because it relates to one-sixth of our economy, and you heard lamar alexander this morning raise with president obama the fact that then-senator obama didn t seem to think that reconciliation was a fair procedure when he was part of the senate minority, when the democrats were in the majority, and here s a sound bite to that effect, and i want to get your reaction. essentially have still two chambers, the house and the senate, but you have simply majoritarian, absolutely power on either side, and that s just not what the founders intended. so this president has come to the majority in the senate and basically said, change the rules! do it the way i want it done. i say to my friends on the republican side, you may own the field right now, but you won t own it forever. and i pray god when the
that than people realize. how democrats are looking for a sign, some kind of sign from democrats that they are going to be able to do this before they re going to stick their necks out and pass a senate bill and a reconciliation bill which they have a lot of problems in. in a sense, we are where we were even before back in the summer and the spring of the last year. the argument is a procedural one, even from senators now, that say we re not going to ram this through under this expedited process we call reconciliation. substantively, there are a lot of problems with it because it pertains to tax and revenue razors and so on. but what about the politics here? it seems like all the signs are pointing to the democrats ending at passing this bill on a reconciliation basis. if you re going to do that and take all the heat for that kind of political move, why aren t they doing it now? they could have done it six months ago. it s like they paid this huge political prize and ended up doing