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  Senate Fight Starts: GOP Says Senate Parliamentarian Will Kill Fix-Its Bill
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Last EditedImperator  Mar 21, 2010 06:24pm
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News DateMonday, March 22, 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports: The House bill has not yet passed and already we are seeing the reconciliation fight start in the Senate.

Senate Republicans say they can get the whole package of reconciliation fixes – the fix-its that make the Senate plan palatable to House Democrats - thrown out with a trump card procedural motion. And they say Democrats are slow-walking a decision from the parliamentarian until the House passes the Senate bill.

That means the Senate bill, which everyone in the House seems to universally hate, will be the law of the land.
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