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The bill did pass the Senate originally with 60 votes, but the House amended the bill before passing it, which required a Senate vote on the amended bill. Republicans thought that Brown cutting the Democrats effective majority to 59-41 would kill the bill, and that is when Harry Reid decided to avoid a cloture vote by using the budget reconciliation process. The difference between the House and Senate bills had to be resolved before a single bill could be signed into law.

IMO, it was unconstitutional for the bill to pass the Senate first. Spending bills are supposed to originate in the House and Obamacare was a huge tax and spend bill. It doesn't really matter because Democrats would have turned the nuclear option if all else had failed.

Anyway, Obamacare is off topic and I would prefer that a second thread containing the truth about the 104,000 new mining jobs that have been created under Trump's watch not get closed for being off topic.

The bill signed into law was passed in the senate with 60 VOTES the house had to pass the senate bill without changing anything if they waited till after the first of the year when Brown took office it would never passed

And if it means anything TRT added the word COAL thinking nobody would catch it