Medicare Update: House Ways and Means Committee Takes First Step Toward Reconciliation Option

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On October 15, 2009, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a procedural measure to send the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200) to the House Budget Committee with reconciliation instructions.

In a Press Release, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Charles Rangel, characterized today's action as "strictly procedural" and "necessary because there is a possibility that a handful of Senate Republicans could choose to engage in partisan tactics to stall this important health reform bill."
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