From Robert Reich's Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/882305541782043
Oct. 21, 2014
More on why it matters if Republicans take over the Senate: Mitch McConnell, in a speech to donors that was leaked, has set out how he would use a Senate Republican majority: “We own the budget. No money can be spent to do this or that. We’re going to go after them on health care, on financial services, on the Environmental Protection Agency, across the board.”
The Affordable Care Act itself was partly passed via “reconciliation”— a procedure needing just 51 votes -- and in 2012 the team planning a Romney presidency researched how much of it could be repealed the same way. Its answer: Quite a lot. The President would still wield a veto, but McConnell has also threatened to close the government down again if he does.
Post by Robert Reich.
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