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Government
& Public Affairs Update
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Government &
Public Affairs Team
Reginald M. Turner
John
Van Fossen, Practice Group Leader
Lucius A. Vassar
Chris Wagner
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By Anne E. Kornblut
The Washington Post
Monday, March 1, 2010
Raising the
prospect of a "simple up-or-down vote" on health-care
reform, White House adviser Nancy-Ann DeParle
said on Sunday she thinks Democrats will secure enough ayes on the
measure and signaled that the administration could be moving toward
trying to pass it along party lines.
President Obama is planning to
tell Democrats his preferred strategy this week. After letting the
effort play out in Congress for many months, he recently stepped in
to lead it. He issued his own proposal, held a bipartisan summit and
is preparing to direct the next legislative steps.
Increasingly, the White House
appears to favor having the House pass a version of the measure that
cleared the Senate with 60 votes in December. The Senate would then
pass changes to the bill to satisfy some demands of House Democrats.
That Senate vote would take place under a parliamentary procedure
known as reconciliation, which requires 51 votes rather than 60.
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