The Senate challenged two provisions in the health care reform bill and will be sending it back to the House of Representatives for approval before sending the revised health care bill to be signed by Obama.
Obama signed the health care bill into law on Tuesday, but the Senate was still going over the reconciliation bill and disputed two provisions in it that dealt with reforms to the U.S. student loan industry. The revote in the House is required because two provisions of the bill related to Pell grants violate the technical rules of reconciliation legislation. Republicans in the Senate voiced that the provisions originally in the bill violated the requirement that all parts of the bill have a budgetary impact.
The new reconciliation bill was passed in a simple majority in the 100-seat Senate; Republicans control 59 seats.
The reconciliation bill will now be sent back to the House to be voted on, and then sent to the White House to be signed again by Obama. House majority leader Steny Hoyer said on CNN that he expects the bill to be signed without a problem.
The new stipulations in the bill have to do with killing some language in the health care bill having to do with low-income college students. Since both houses of Congress have to pass the exact same bill, the health care bill goes back to the House today.
President Obama is in Iowa City pumping up the public opinion for his health care bill and when he comes back, hopefully the bill will be OK-ed by Congress and ready for his final signature.
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