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PoliticsPA: Specter explains sudden support of reconciliation

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Senator Arlen Specter said Tuesday that he now supports using reconciliation to approve health care legislation because he says he’s discovered lawmakers have used the procedural move many times in the past.

But although he thinks the Senate now has a “really good chance” to approve the health care bill, he called inclusion of the “so-called” public option in it a “longshot.”