Pelosi: Don't have votes to pass Senate HCR bill in house

Wash Post:

"I don't think it's possible to pass the Senate bill in the House," Pelosi told reporters after a morning meeting with her caucus. "I don't see the votes for it at this time."

The problem, as I understand it, is that if the Senate bill is not passed verbatim in the House, then it will need to be voted on again in the Senate, and that will be a Senate that has 59 Dems and independents, one down from the 60 we had before Brown's election. And the Democrats have made clear, for whatever reason, they're afraid to have a vote on health care reform before Brown is seated. But, there's another possibility in the works. Perhaps some of these "fixes" can be passed in Reconciliation. Then the Senate bill could pass as is, and Reconciliation would include the changes the House wants. Still, it's not clear what portions of the bill would work in Reconciliation. So basically it's a bit of a mess at the moment.