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QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 04:51 PM) The "slaughter solution" or "deem and pass" which are "non-voting" measures in the Congress actually consist of a vote. The vote is to approve the reconciliation amendment to the Senate bill, and then the house would deem the Senate bill approved. So by voting no to the reconciliation amendment, you are voting no to the Senate bill as well. From what I understand of it, and granted my knowledge of Congressional parliamentary procedure is not the greatest, in either case the Senate bill is considered. It'll be awful hard to talk about the Congress not voting on the bill when they vote on the bill in the "deem and pass" procedure, if that happens. Kucinich announced he's flipping to a yes vote on the Senate bill with reconciliation fixes. Whip count is 208 - Yes. With the Eric Massa resignation, majority in the house is currently 216. 15 Democratic Representatives have yet to commit to voting on this package. Of those 15, 10 of them voted for the original House measure. Unless two of those people flip to no, this passes and health care reform happens. I think it's becoming increasingly clear that stupak was bluffing, he may have some, but his "dozen" was more of a mccarthyesque briefcase.

You are right NSS. In reconciliation, however, you don't need nelson/landrieu, and that's why they won't be put back in.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 04:48 PM) Do we know that yet? the nelson/landrieu ones were indeed.

those incentives were all removed in the sidecar though.

possibly, but bernanke isn't really doing any favors to Obama right now. I think a bigger problem is this new inevitability with the fed, where clearly only one person can run it.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 03:13 PM) Who is Dennis, and voting on what? What's up with the unexplained posts lately? Kucinich was holding out on voting for health care reform (he voted no the first bill, a much more liberal bill, which he said wasn't far enough), and then today at 10 am he declared he'd vote yes. It still boggles my mind that the house has had such trouble passing a more conservative bill than the one they ALREADY PASSED. ridiculous

does your friend really like punk, or just the sample "punk" bands

feist is so punk.

Dennis voting yes. Thanks dude.

pssh, i've had my powerbook for 5 years with no problems. NO PROBLEMS. I've dropped the thing off of a loft onto a wooden chair. The thing is amazing. It's outlasted all of my friends PCs and only not outlasted the other friends who have powerbooks.

the obsession with the declining dollar...an instant clue that the person is not worth talking to.

my father was in the military, therefore, I get to be moral arbiter for all things patriotic!

I don't hate kotsay just like I didn't hate Wise. I hate ozzie for continuing to find the least talented offensive players on the team so many damn at bats.

bigsqwert, you can save what's on your ipod, i forgot how to do it now but i did it freshman year when i kept losing my ipod.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 16, 2010 -> 03:53 PM) And I'm all for reforming those types of things. I'm absolutely against being able to drop people already covered and having caps. I'm not against some of the proposed reforms on the insurance industry, I think it needs to apply to ALL insurance, including Auto, Life, etc... But they still have to do something about the fact the doctors/hospitals charge whatever they want. One reform without the other is absolutely meaningless. All this does is change who is paying for it, not the amount being paid...which is the mother f***ing point in the first place. Well, then I guess we just have to hope this transparency in pricing thing works out to drive costs down.

Hey guys nancy pelosi is a big stupid idiot. But so is George Bush. (I'm good right?)

For the record, now having been out of the country a while, Ive learned that most developing countries revere the FDA and AMA and since they don't have the ability to create similar institutions, merely tag off of what the FDA makes legal as what's legal in their country. However, Europes are also much faster, and Brazil has now tagged off of them.

That's great, but there are caps and in addition to that there have been numerous, numerous cases of people being dropped from their coverage when they get a disease because they were found to have not marked that they had an unrelated pre-existing disease that was so mild they didn't know they qualified. I find it kind of funny there is so much harping for cost controls on the doctors and hospitals now, because in the beginning there was a lot of buls*** about how you were taking away doctors profits. And people like doctors. So we know that wasn't going to happen.

Well, at the very least, I learned that smoak's name is pronounced smoke, and not smoAK. SO thanks, knackattack.

Yes, if only kenny had waited 24 hours longer so you could have written the mediocre range of "between pearl harbor day and christmas" because, as we all know, that has some sort of significance. if kenny had only waited four months longer, he would've acquired TWO between st. patricks day and Easter...how about that!

QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 11, 2010 -> 03:08 AM) You shouldn't be. Courtney Love held onto that stuff like Gollum. Ahh, I didn't know that footage like that would be held onto by the band.

No one knows what's in the bill? I do. The one thing they are negotiating is abortion and that will be something similar to the senate or house. If you don't know what's in it it's because YOU HAVENT READ THE BILL! READ THE BILL! READ THE BILL!

guess what dudes, minorities are growing, and one party is doing all they can to marginalize them.

You do have to reply to the census under punishment of fine.

Wasn't the hype over silveiro just kind of a reaction to that kind of money thrown at a "16" year old? Wouldn't you think there was something to it? That was just an absurd, dark time in the White Sox org. But hey, maybe dude can become somethin.