Washington (CNN) — With the health care summit showing no sign of getting either side to budge, lawmakers are staking out positions in the battle many believe is imminent: a presidential effort to push legislation through without Republican support.
On the political talk shows Sunday, Democratic and GOP leaders fought over budget reconciliation, the parliamentary procedure that could allow a vote in the Senate and circumvent a GOP filibuster.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, told CNN’s “State of the Union” that he and other lawmakers “do not think something of this magnitude ought to be jammed down the throats of a public that doesn’t want it through this kind of device.” Read More…
