Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this morning at her weekly press conference that House Democrats will definitely "be proposing reconciliation for health care" proposals this year so as to achieve a "robust initiative" and "the strongest possible package."

While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said later during a briefing with reporters that reconciliation was not currently in the Senate's plans for health care or other Democratic priorities, he maintained he's "taking nothing off the table."

The legislative maneuver would require only 50 votes to pass the Senate, far easier than the 60 votes usually needed. Republicans have voiced opposition to it, which Pelosi called hypocritical.

Reid and fellow Democratic Senate leaders Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Charles Schumer (N.Y.) also brought up Republican hypocricy. Schumer read off of a press release statements by Republicans over the last eight years saying in a number of different ways that "deficits don't matter."

"There's a little bit of speaking one way when there's a Republican president, and now a Democratic president's another," Schumer said. "They should worry about the deficit, but they should've worried about it back then."

While House Republicans outlined their alternative budget earlier today, Reid said Senate Republican critics should come up with their own plan if they're unhappy with the Democrats' proposals.

"You don't like this?" Reid said. "What do you suggest would be better?"