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Originally Posted by biker1
And Obama had a majority in the House, a super majority in the Senate and was held hostage by some of his own senators for the current bill. Since the supermajority prevents a filibuster, they could have passed anything they wanted. How quickly some forget, or didn't know.
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Edward Kennedy, the 60th Democrat vote in the Senate died in August 2009. Scott Brown, a Republican, who nobody expected to win the special election replaced him in January 2010 thus killing the Democrats' super majority in the Senate. So the Democrats had a super majority for less than a year, and did not have one when Obamacare was signed into law in March 2010. Because they lacked a super majority in the Senate in 2010, the House had to pass the Senate version of the bill that was passed in 2009 rather than going through the normal reconciliation process between the House and Senate versions.