Firedoglake is reporting that the House leadership is talking to Stupak about allowing his language to be voted on either before or after the main health care vote (as I understand it). They are calling it an 'enrollment corrections bill'.
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Can they do that and still have the bill go to the Senate under reconciliation rules? Can they do that and abide by the agreement they made with the Senate? Is there a chance of it passing the house - will 40-55 in the pro-choice block be enough to stop passage? And how did we get to this point?
Best case scenario is that they will allow the vote after the bill, but it fails. Then the bill goes to the Senate unchanged from the deal they made earlier in the week. If it passes, could the Senate strip it out? If so, would that land the bill back in the house?
Worse case scenario is that they will allow the vote before the bill, it passes, and then the HC bill fails...or it fails and the HC bill fails. Doesn't sound like this is a winning strategy for getting this bill passed.