Health Care Reform and the Massachusetts Race

The eyes of the nation are on tomorrow's special election in Massachusetts. Polls show Republican Scott Brown is leading Democrat Martha Coakley in the contest for the Senate seat held by the late Senator Ted Kennedy. Brown's election and seating in the Senate would give the Republicans 41 votes, causing the Democrats to lose their filibuster-proof majority. If the House of Representatives does not pass the unamended Senate health care bill, the Democrats would then have to use questionable tactics to strong-arm the passage of health care reform. Their options could include the following ploys: (1)stalling the certification and seating of Scott Brown until after a Senate vote on an amended health care bill; (2)using reconciliation as a way to pass big parts of the health care reform bill. A reconciliation bill is usually developed by various committees and includes provisions that affect the federal budget. It requires only a majority vote to pass and is not subject to filibuster on the floor of the Senate. Prospect.org explains the way reconciliation could be used to pass health care reform: "Imagine you want to run health reform through the reconciliation process. Here's how it works: Congress includes reconciliation instructions in the budget. Those instructions direct certain committees -- say, the Finance Committee and the Health, Energy, Labor, and Pensions Committee -- to produce health-reform legislation hitting certain spending targets by a certain deadline. Once finished, the legislation is tossed back to the Budget Committee, which staples it together into an omnibus bill and sends it to the floor of the Senate for 20 hours of debate followed by an up-or-down vote." A provision for government funding of abortion could easily pass this way. With a pro-abortion President and pro-abortion leaders in the House and Senate, our nation is in grave danger of facilitating abortion. Please continue to pray that God will bring to light all of the schemes to promote abortion by our government. May He give pro-life Representatives and Senators wisdom to recognize and to defeat assaults on the lives of the unborn.

May God have mercy on our nation.
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