Think Progress Catches Senator Inhofe in a Lie About Use of Reconciliation on Climate Bill
Despite Frist’s acknowledgment that he used reconciliation for the Bush tax cuts, Malzberg sat silently an hour later on his show as Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) told him that if Democrats passed clean energy legislation similar to the Waxman-Markey bill through reconciliation, it “would be the first time on a major tax bill that that’s been done in our nation’s history”:
MALZBERG: Could they do reconciliation on this like they’re going to do with health care?
INHOFE: Well, they’re, I think they’re going to have a hard time doing reconciliation because that would be the first time on a major tax bill that that’s been done in our nation’s history. And I don’t think that Harry Reid really wants to do that. Yes he, they talk about it. I think that’s a threat.
MALZBERG: You mean for health care or for this bill?
INHOFE: I’m talking about this bill.
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