Tom Cole: It’s Not a Good Idea to Try to Run the House Using Senate Rules

EXCERPT:

COLE: "Well, frankly I don’t think you do much after something like this by pointing fingers. It's better to learn lessons. And I think there’s a lot of lessons to learn here. And one of the first ones is probably not a good idea to try  and run the House by Senate rules. Reconciliation is a Senate device, it doesn’t work very well over here. And second lesson to me is probably, you know, we ought to move really through regular order, that means all the hearings, all the things that it takes and that actually leaves Democrats in play, once you do reconciliation. And to be fair, they were never in play on -- on repealing ObamaCare. But, once you do that, you basically limit yourself to the players inside your own caucus."