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Relief funding for hurricane katrina. telling the hill newspaper it was the best vote he ever cast. king was the sole nay vote on house resolution. king said the children's health care bill s-chip stood for socialized clinton style hillary care for illegals and their parents. still, their are things steve king likes and those are creepy, too. king voted against increasing penalties for dogfighting and cockfighting. on nuclear power king said by the way if you had an chained to the reactor at three mile island when it started its reaction test, you would have gotten the equivalent dose of an x-...

Result, an end result that will -- it's not just senator mccain, but robert byrd, he wrote an op-ed piece say this reconciliation procedure was never meant to deal with something like health care reform. >> but it has been used, wolf. >> he knows a lot about the rules of the senate, robert byrd. >> and i'm going to defer to him on that. i'm not a senate rule expert, but i know the history. reconciliation has been used to balanced budget act, for s-chip, for key procedures. again, what the american public wants is why shouldn't we be able to have an up or down vote. the bill has already passed,...

The health care of america, it is about job, and in its life it will create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately. jobs again, the health care industry, but in the entrepreneurial world as well. you, mr. president, your leadership, we passed the american reinvestment and recovery act, last january and got a running start on some of the technology and science on scientific advancements, investments in biomedical research, health i.t., health information technology, a running start by your signing the s-chip, children's health bill, insuring 11 million children, a running start on expa...

Legislation, such as health care, as you all know. >> actually, that's completely, utterly 100%, knowingly wrong. that is not true at all, senator kyl. and you know it's not true. reconciliation is how the health care system has been essentially formed in this country, over and over and over again. you ever heard of cobra? cobra is the law that lets people keep their employee health insurance for a while after they've been laid off. you want to know what the "r" in cobra stands for? reconciliation. oh, yeah, look at that. in 1986, congress passed the consolidated omnibus budget r-r-reconciliat...

What's the difference? >> i disagree with ryan this is a conservative blueprint the president put forward. it's very much not what the republicans talked about in terms of changing the tax code, portability, reducing mandates. what this is about is getting government more involved in our health care industry. today, 50% of health care is in the hands of government through medicare, medicaid, s-chip and v.a. and the president in his speech september 9th said i want a $900 billion health care plan over ten years to be deficit neutral. then made the point one of the ways would be cutting out frau...