Reconciliation May Return in 2008

Democrats Eye Using Budget Rules to Move Bills

By Steven T. Dennis and Erin P. Billings
Roll Call Staff
Dec. 19, 2007, 12 a.m.

House and Senate Democrats are considering using next year’s budget as a weapon to bypass Senate Republican filibusters and ensure politically popular legislation reaches the president’s desk.



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Who could blame hundreds of Members of Congress for joining with a colleague and breast cancer survivor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in co-sponsoring legislation aimed at promoting breast cancer education? The problem, according to leading breast cancer scientists and advocacy groups, is the bill would do more harm than good. Read Full Article

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