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So Speaker Pelosi….

By Kate Pickert | @katepickert | March 17, 2010 | +

Where is the CBO score?

There were hints the score would come last week. The by the weekend. Then Monday. Then Tuesday. Earlier today, Talking Points Memo reported that “multiple sources in the House and Senate” said to expect a score by “late today.” NBC’s Luke Russert just tweeted that the score would be out by 7:30 p.m. today.

I’ll believe it when I see it. It seems adjusting the Senate bill via a reconciliation package is a little more complicated than the Speaker expected. Politico’s Ben Smith reports the head of the AFL-CIO is about to be briefed again, a sign that expected changes to the Cadillac tax are not going as smoothly as Democrats had hoped.

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  • noparty98223

    I can honestly say I despise Nancy Pelosi. In my opinion, she is vile and evil! She almost makes me ashamed to be an American for the first time in my life.

  • stuartzechman

    Kate Pickert:

    It seems adjusting the Senate bill via a reconciliation package is a little more complicated…

    Well…yes, of course it is.
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    I expect that you already know what Pass Anything Now supporter Chris Bowers has explained about what the reconciliation package must do to pass Senate rules on reconciliation (link to Bowers’ “Not Everything is Going Well on Health Reform Today” ):

    In order to pass the bill by the Easter recess, and avoid any further delays that could sink the bill, the Senate needs to take up the bill next week.
    .
    In order for the Senate to take up the reconciliation bill next week, President Obama has to sign the Senate bill into law before he leaves the country for a five day trip on Sunday.
    .
    In order for President Obama to sign the bill into law before he leaves the country, the House needs to pass the bill by Saturday night.
    .
    And, in order for the House to pass the bill by Saturday night, the CBO needs to release its score of the bill tonight, 72 hours before the House votes.
    .
    However, its Wednesday, and there is still no score. While one is expected tonight, the holdup is a pretty serious one. As Jonathan Cohn explains     [link to TNR, unfortunately], the reconciliation bill might not reduce the deficit during the second decade after its enactment, which is required in order to pass the bill through reconciliation.
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    Hard to imagine that this is something which can be fixed in a single day, and without a public option.

    So, Kate Pickert, how do you suppose that the reconciliation package will “reduce the deficit” relative to the reductions already contained in the Senate bill (meaning even more deficit reduction than the Senate bill already has) “during the second decade after its enactment” as is required by reconciliation rules?
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    How will House Democrats be able to reduce the deficit by more than the $100 billion or so they were able to squeeze out of the Senate bill?
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    How can this possibly work?
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    What will House Dems need to enact in order to meet reconciliation requirements and pass this thing, Kate Pickert?

  • ogliberal

    Care to explain why you feel this way?

  • nflfoghorn

    Is it because she gets what she wants most of the time?

  • nflfoghorn

    “What will House Dems need to pull out of their collective rumps in order to meet reconciliation requirements and pass this thing, Kate Pickert?”
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    Fixed it for you.

  • stuartzechman

    Didn’t the CBO say when they scored HR 3200 that the House’s public option in would reduce the deficit?
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    I know that its inclusion would go against the Dole-Daschle blueprint that the Senate and the White House have been working from, but…

  • noparty98223

    Did you hear the sarcasm in her voice when she said the “poor baby, poor baby” etc part of this. Speaking of someone with cancer with a sarcastic poor baby is sickening…
    “”This is a sad case…This is a very sick person. He has been diagnosed with cancer. Perhaps his judgment is impaired because of the ethical issues that have arisen and he is no longer in the Congress. Poor baby. Poor baby. Sometimes we really exagerrate our own importance in a lot of these things.”

    oh and lets see she thinks its funny that Barry Obama didn’t hold to his transparency promise…”hhheeee hhheeeehehee a lot of things were said on the campaign trail hee hee heee”

    and then of course “you will have to pass this bill to see what’s in it” Nice.

  • nflfoghorn

    Yes it did, but your wife doesn’t work on behalf of the “needs” of powerful insurance companies based out of Connecticut.

  • nflfoghorn

    “Where is the CBO score?”
    .
    Have you checked ESPN’s Bottom Line yet?

  • carotexas1

    Thank Stuart and nflfoghorn, so I did not have to post this again. Looks like a really simple fix. I wish they had the courage to pass the really popular House Option.
    .
    Kate saying the Union is being called in I would think the save will have to do with the Union agreement.

  • jcapan

    “Have you checked ESPN’s Bottom Line yet?”
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    No, but March Madness sounds like a wonderful salve to my liberal soul this year. 18 hours to tipoff!

  • allthingsinaname

    I said weeks ago 3/19 show me. Some hang up on the Cadilac tax and the CBO score not what it needs to be. Wll the PO could have fixed it all,, but………….?

  • kathy

    The fact that the CBO score is “late” is a made-up controversy. Don’t you have anything better to do? The CBO isn’t partisan, and I assume you’d like them to get it done right rather than early. This post was an excuse to wring your hands. Here I am a day later and the CBO score is in.

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