Legal Commentary

Obama Confident Enough to Adopt Mocking Tone

By Jeralyn

Greg Sargent at the Plum Line says Obama wouldn't adopt this mocking tone of Republicans unless it was in the bag. He also thinks the Dems are releasing some vulnerable members, like Jim Matheson and Zack Space of Ohio, saying it's okay for them to vote "no" because they don't need them. They've got the votes.

Here's a rough schedule of tomorrow's vote timeline: [More..]

• 2 p.m.: The House will debate for one hour the rules of debate for the reconciliation bill and the Senate bill.
• 3 p.m.: The House will vote to end debate and vote on the rules of the debate.
• 3:15 p.m.: The House will debate the reconciliation package for two hours.
• 5:15 p.m.: The House will vote on the reconciliation package.
• 5:30 p.m.: The House will debate for 15 minutes on a Republican substitute and then vote on the substitute.
• 6 p.m.: The House will vote on the final reconciliation package.
• 6:15 p.m.: If the reconciliation bill passes, the House will immediately vote on the Senate bill, without debate.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 20, 2010 (boomark / email).