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TPMDC is reporting that the CBO analysis of the Senate health care bill is taking even longer than expected:
Washington waited through a slow holiday week with bated breath for a CBO analysis of Senate health care legislation, which had been expected today. But now sources say the report won’t likely be ready until early next week.
The CBO has been taking much longer than expected, and this is not the first delay due to issues of CBO scoring that has slowed down the debate. Every delay makes it harder and harder for Harry Reid to reach the goal of passing health care reform by the end of the year. Of course, Reid still has the option of using reconciliation. That would not only fix Reid’s time problem, but could easily help resolve the contentious issue of killing the Stupak amendment and passing a public option.
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Can someone explain why we are going through all this drama if we can just do reconciliation, git ‘er done and move on?
There are problems with using reconciliation related to a thing called the Byrd rule and the hurt egos of senators throwing temper tantrums that slow everything way do.
We can’t get a great bill really with reconciliation just a bill watered down if a different manner. The damage the Byrd rule would do seem way less at this point than giving into Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman
Jon, I have a question here:
Has anybody contacted the CBO for why they are doing this with the delays?
Funny, through my working career I never had a veterans day off and I am a vet. In DeeCee it shuts them down for a week.
wouldn’t it suck to have the public option put in place and then have it sunset?
oh and i wonder if Republicans are smart enough to throw a lot of requests CBO’s way to “slow down” reform??? I doubt it but it could be happening. I mean they did put their “fake reform” effort out there and got it scored. Could it have been a stall tactic?