When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?