After meeting with President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that health care reform is 90 percent done and that Republicans still have a seat at the negotiating table.
President Obama has often said that Republicans and Democrats can agree on 80 percent of the health care reforms Congress should enact -- that it is the remaining 20 percent that has stalled legislation.
"In our conversations today, we think we're up to 90 percent," Reid said from outside the White House. "We have 10 percent to work on, and we can do that."
The majority leader also said the Congress is still taking a bipartisan approach to reform and would not consider reconciliation -- a voting procedure that would allow Democrats to bypass Republican opposition -- unless there was no other choice. - CBS News Story
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