Please review the process of getting a Health Reform Bill passed

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Dumb questions but...what is left in the process?

The Senate needs to reconcile how many Bills?
And then after the House and Senate agree on one Bill each, they merge?


I should know this.
Excuse my ignorance.


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[tekisui]

1. Here is a helpful chart and post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8700963

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2. thank you!!

[KharmaTrain]

3. This May Also Be Helpful...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlka6fTnDnI

Next both Senate bills...the Finance Committee and the HELP bills will be brought to the Senate floor and either can be voted on separately or in merged form. This is where the rubber will hit the road as somewhere soon there will be a cloture vote to move the legislation to Reconcillation that will mean only 51 votes to pass rather than 60. The House will also merge their 3 bills...all which have already passed. Next comes the conference...House & Senate to hammer out the final details and then send a final bill to both Houses for passage. This is a tenative schedule as it appears the House & Senate are already hammering details out behind closed doors.

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4. thanks!!

[jdlh8894]

5. Behind closed doors?

This issue should be out in the open! I guess this is just to remind us peons that all deals will be made over a scotch and a cigar!

[KharmaTrain]

6. Been That Way For 220 Years...

While I'm all for transparency, there's a problem when you put a teevee camera and a politician together. They can't shut up. Look at yesterday's Finance Committee vote...every Senator had to put in their two cents...again. It took 6 hours to take a 5 minute vote. CSPAN did air the mark-up and even that was a tedious show...much of it due to the endless ammendments the rushpublicans submitted to try to water down or poison the whole thing.

The important thing is who is behing those closed door and fortunately there won't be any rushpublicans. They've always said watching legislation being made is like watching them make sausage. It's behind those doors where the public option will emerge...and surely it will mean deals cut to ensure it gets there.