The decision, reported by CQ Roll Call through leaks from Senate aides, does not touch on whether certain aspects of the Senate bill will be allowed under reconciliation, the mechanism for avoiding filibusters, and the need to round up 60 votes.
It just says that the way the House structured its repeal-and-replace bill works within the reconciliation guidelines. Democrats had argued the bill did not meet those guidelines.
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Mara Lee covers developments in health care policy in Congress and around Washington. This is her second time covering the Hill. In a previous life, she covered Midwestern delegations for Scripps and Gannett newspapers in Indiana and Michigan. Over her 20-year-plus-career, she’s spent more time outside the Beltway, both as a business reporter for The Hartford Courant and nine years in Ohio, mostly at the Dayton Daily News. She won an award for coverage of Oxycontin addiction Ohio in 2003, as well as for Census, business and breaking news coverage in Ohio and Connecticut. She’s a Virginia native, and graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Twitter handle: MaraRhymesSarah