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Defend America on Friday, March 12, 2010 6:13:40 PM
Pelosi to seek Senate 'assurances' before House health vote
By Jared Allen and Jeffrey Young
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03/12/10 12:56 PM ET
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday said
she will need “certain assurances” from Senate Democrats before the House votes
on healthcare reform as early as next week.
Pelosi did not say what those assurances would be, but
acknowledged that extracting them would be necessary to counter lingering
concerns from within her caucus that the Senate will not be able to pass a
reconciliation bill.
“With reconciliation, a simple majority, a
constitutional
majority, I think members are much more comfortable with the fact that
this
reconciliation will happen,” Pelosi said at her weekly press
conference. “Nonetheless, there are certain assurances that they want,
and that we will get
from [Senate Democrats] before I ask them to take the vote.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/86481-pelosi-wants-senate-assurances-before-house-vote-on-healthcare