White House Ponders 'reconciliation' For Agenda

By Lori Montgomery Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News: Politics
Tue, 03/17/2009 - 7:11pm

WASHINGTON — Senior members of the Obama administration are pressing lawmakers to use a shortcut to drive the president's signature initiatives on health care and energy through Congress without Republican votes, a move that many lawmakers say would fly in the face of President Barack Obama's

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