ROLL CALL - Wicker says GOP Senators won't waive points of order if it violates procedure
Senate Republicans on Wednesday were preparing to send a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowing to raise potentially crippling objections to any portion of a proposed health care reconciliation package that they believe violates the procedure’s narrow guidelines.
The letter, signed by all 41 Senate Republicans and spearheaded by Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), is actually directed at House Democrats. To sow discord among House Democrats and derail passage of health care reform in that chamber, Senate Republicans are making it very clear that anything House Democrats agree to could die in the Senate.
“Forty-one of us have signed a letter. It’s in writing. None of us will vote to waive points of order,” Sen. Roger Wicker (Miss.) said Wednesday afternoon during a joint news conference with Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman John Thune (S.D.) and GOP Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.) and Tom Coburn (Okla.).
Roll Call
3/10/10
Posted March 10, 2010 - 4:49 pm
Friday, September 3, 2010
This will be interesting how this turns out. Reconciliation changes have to be changes that apply to the budget. The word is that they will raise a point of order to things that do not apply to the budget. This would effect changing the abortion language which the pro life Dems are promised will happen after they vote on the senate bill. It takes 60 votes to overturn a point of order. What this means is the Republicans in the senate are saying to the pro life house Dems that you will own the abortion language from the senate bill and we will not allow for it to be changed. I know that it does not sound right because most of the Republicans in the senate are pro life but they are using this as a way to kill the bill. I really see this whole thing imploding.