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apsec112last Saturday at 3:16 AM1 replyview on HN

Obamacare was passed via regular order (60 Senate votes), not reconciliation. There was a follow-up package to tweak it that passed via reconciliation in 2010, but the original bill was regular order. It's the only (very brief) window where one party has held 60 Senate seats since 1977.


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rpiguyyesterday at 3:43 AM

Whoops! I remembered the reconciliation but not the initial vote.