“The official rules keeper in the Senate Friday tossed a bucket of cold water on the Senate Republican health bill by advising that major parts of the bill cannot be passed with a simple majority, but rather would require 60 votes. Republicans hold only 52 seats in the Senate. Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough said that … Continue reading “….. the parliamentarian has taken an already very difficult process for enacting health care legislation in the Senate and made it nearly impossible….”