DeMint's Motion to Instruct

-To Insist on the Senate Provision Requiring a 60-Vote Majority

"The Senator from South Carolina, Mr. DeMint, moves that the managers on the part of the Senate at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 13 (the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010) be instructed to insist that the conference report on the concurrent resolution shall include a point of order against legislation that eliminates the ability of Americans to keep their health plan and eliminates the ability of Americans to choose their doctor, as contained in section 316 of the concurrent resolution, as passed by the Senate, and insist further that an additional condition be added providing such legislation shall not decrease the number of Americans enrolled in private health insurance, while increasing the number of Americans enrolled in government-managed, rationed health care."

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