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.



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