The Media’s Health Care Filibuster

Commentary
By Jamison Foser

All year, the media have told us that passage of health care reform requires not just the 51 Senate votes that would constitute a majority, but the 60 votes required to invoke cloture and shut off debate. It’s such a common refrain, the media often employ the shorthand that health care reform needs the support of 60 senators to pass.

That isn’t actually true. Even assuming Senate Democrats do not…