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Robert Dove on reconciliation  What do you make of former Senate
parliamentarian Robert Dove's comments to TIME's Jay Newton-
Small, "I've never seen a two-bill strategy" where
reconciliation is used to fix another piece of legislation, he
says. "It's permissible, I've just never seen it." Is he saying
the main Senate health care bill need not first be passed by the
House in order for a reconciliation fix to be considered?  Ezra
Klein writes:  That looks to be what he's saying, though at the
same time, it seems that the House has agreed to go first so
long as the Senate agrees to pass reconciliation second. So it
might be a moot point.  Stupak Amendment  If the Stupak
amendment cannot be passed through reconciliation since it
doesn't affect the budget, couldn't the democrats pass the
Stupak amendment alone separately as a regular bill? It's really
hard to see how the Republicans in house or the senate would
vote against a bill that says in plain l