Rockefeller Dismisses Reconciliation as an Option for Health Care Reform

• By Steven T. Dennis
• Roll Call Staff
• Nov. 17, 2009, 1:14 p.m.

A leading liberal backer of the public insurance option, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), poured cold water Tuesday on the idea of using filibuster-busting reconciliation rules to bypass opposition from Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) and all 40 Republicans to a Democratic health care reform bill.