GUEST COLUMN : The coming referendum
A growing number of Americans are opposed to overhaul
Posted: September 24, 2009 at 6:39 a.m.
At the time of this writing, the Democrat-controlled Congress is considering passing a vastly unpopular national health care program by using questionable parliamentary tricks. The trick of which I speak is the so-called "nuclear option" in the U.S. Senate. Simply put, this is a method by which the political party in control of the Senate may bring to a vote a matter with a simple majority of senators' consent as opposed to the typical filibuster-proof majority of 60 members.
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Opinion, Pages 4 on 09/24/2009
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