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Emergency Bypass Surgery

by David Kurtz
08.19.09 | 5:13 pm

We were hearing rumblings of this today and now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Senate Dems may split health care reform legislation into two separate bills, sticking the more politically controversial provisions into one bill and using budget reconciliation rules to get that bill around a filibuster.

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