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JOSH GERSTEIN
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) warns that Democrats are playing with fire by attempting to pass health care legislation using the Senate's reconciliation rules and without bipartisan support.
"To do this is just very, very dangerous," Hatch said Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press." "It's going to cause an awful lot of problems."
A feisty Hatch said the health care overhaul is unlike other measures passed by reconciliation, including children's health care legislation he co-sponsored with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.).
"We're talking about the first time in history sweeping social legislation will be passed, if [Democrats] get their way, by a totally partisan vote," Hatch said. "If we do that, Katie bar the door, I got to tell you."
