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Stop health reform from succeeding. take, for example, republican senator judd gregg of new hampshire. mr. gregg went on the fox news channel today to decry the use of reconciliation to pass reform. >> its bad policy, and to do it this way is to really railroad the american people and the congress. >> reconciliation, railroading the american people and the congress. railroading them. that new judd gregg really is not going to be happy when we introduce him to the old judd gregg. >> we are using ...

They delivered and we are not debating the process, which we have been doing for the last 15 months, thats the problem. >> youve got to tell your guys, youve got to get on the right side of history on this deal. >> damage amn right. >> the right side of history to stop this bill and not put us in a bankruptcy. look what has happened to the greeks and the british. we cant afford it. we cant afford the tax increases. >> lets have a vote. thats the issue today. lets have an up or down vote and then...

The next step is to bridge the differences between the two bills so the president can get something on his desk to sign. in order to do that two things will happen. first the house will pass the senate version of the bill and then there will be a small package of tweaks to that bill that will be passed by the democrats under majority rules. all appearances are, its going to happen. there are things the republicans can do to yell and scream about it. there are ways they can try to slow it down. t...

Support that position. now, is there something wrong with majority rules? i dont think so. >> of course, today on health care, both sides are arguing the exact opposite position. the senate parliamentarian has a say on whether or not reconciliation can be used, and for what provisions. another thing to keep in mind is that reconciliation is only supposed to apply to provisions that are jermaine -- germane to the budget. now, both parties as we mentioned have used the procedure to pass nail-biter...

Does he make an appeal saying this is a simple majority, majority rules, make it sound like motherhood and apple pie? >> he ought to call it mantle rule. the country, i think, believes in majority rule. the republicans have a completely phony argument here. this affects one-sixth of the american economy. i went back and looked what the reagan people were saying about the reagan economic program in 1981, saying this was going to transform the entire american economy and passed it through a proces...

Ways. we know theres some antidepressants where it has been very well known some of the side effects may be suicidal behavior in itself. again, we are at a place in our lives, in our research, where we just dont know what the real effects of these antidepressants can be for these young people. as they get older, become adults, we know they are much more effective. >> "today" show contributor and clinical psychologist dr. jeff gardere, thanks for coming on, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> for ...

>> there are a number of other democrats who do not think something of this magnitude ought to be jammed down the throats of a public that doesnt want it. this is really the democratic majority ain, frankly, an arrogant way saying were smarter than you, americans, and were going to give it to you whether you want it or not. >> how did the president react to that republican take? >> first of all, no one is jamming anything down their throats. health care can come to the american people and we kno...

Political kamikaze mission. pelosi is urging her members to show some backbone here. >> they know this will take courage, courage to pass social security, courage to pass medicare. why are we here? were not here just to self-perpetuate our service in congress. were here to do the job for the american people. >> politico health care reporter live on capitol hill, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, tamron. >> so this is not all leading to reconciliation. why are there reports out the administ...

Five seconds today. it is time for the shuster showdown and the ongoing saber rattles over health care reform. president obama is expected to announce how he would like lawmakers to move forward possibly suggesting using reconciliation, a fancy name for majority rules. republicans awarding democrats, a dangerous political path to take. >> it would be a political kamikaze mission if they jammed this through after the american people are saying, look, were trying to tell you in every way we know...

Robert byrd has written a letter that this law is not for this policy, because it is for deficit reduction and adjustment of taxes only. greg in georgia, we live under a democratic republican whether the majority rules. if the republicans want to whine about losing a vote to a majority, i would remind them that they lost the election by a majority. deal with it. justin in sacramento, they most definitely should and must. the 22 times that the reconciliation budget procedure has been used in the ...