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Welcome back to "hardball." i'm chuck todd. i'm in for chris matthews, who's in jordan with vice president biden. it's time to talk about some races we're loving to cover this spring. in a few minutes, colorado congressman romanoff will be here. arlen specter, faces congressman joe sestak in the democratic primary for the u.s. senate which has been may 18th. almost two months away from that. before i get to that race, i want to go to senator reid's decision to formally inform the republicans that he's going to go this senate role reconciliation. are you concerned about any of the long-term f...

That you cannot discriminate against pre-existing conditions. i think it makes a lot of sense to be able to buy policies across state lines, so you have competition and you can carry your policy with you if you move or lose your job. the complexity i think worries a lot of people. when you read these bills, they're very long, very complicated because they build on an existing complicated system. and it's not really a system. it's a hodgepodge. we have medicare a, b, d, medicaid, state programs, s-chip, et cetera. that worries a lot of people and, frankly, troubles me. >> congressman, you're re...

Office. most reason december of '09 for hhs this one here. >> greta: he can live with the language on this bill and you can as well? >> sure, even the s-chip bills. one of the first bills the president signed we he came into office, expanded s-chip, state children's health initiative program to cover more kids. again has a prohibition on no payment of funds for abortions. take that language. we've already voted on it. the president signed it, it's law. >> greta: why hasn't this been done? is there some objection or confusion? >> convenient confusion. get tkpwhraet does that mean? >> they don't...

Into law since he has been in office. most reason december of '09 for hhs this one here. >> greta: he can live with the language on this bill and you can as well? >> sure, even the s-chip bills. one of the first bills the president signed we he came into office, expanded s-chip, state children's health initiative program to cover more kids. again has a prohibition on no payment of funds for abortions. take that language. we've already voted on it. the president signed it, it's law. >> greta: why hasn't this been done? is there some objection or confusion? >> convenient confusion. get tkpwhraet...

Iran and she said, yes, plus the fact that there aren't confirmations of ambassadors and the kind of gridlock shows that we are not able to govern. so while this health care legislation is very important for the millions not covered and the escalating costs on small business, it's really a test as to whether we can govern. and that has to be demonstrated. this business of reconciliation, we've gotten very deeply involved in it recently because of necessity. and the fact is that reconciliation has been used 22 times after similar circumstances on s-chip, on cobra, on medicare advantage, on welf...