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Dems Secure 60 Votes To Start Debate on Health Care
November 21, 2009 - by David Moore
The NYTimes reports: Senate Democrats said they had clinched the votes needed on Saturday to propel major health care legislation to the floor for weeks of full debate, as the majority party’s two last holdouts said that they would not block consideration of President Obama’s top domestic initiative.
Breaking news coverage: The Hill, WaPo, WSJ… more to come.
Brian Beutler is in the Capitol live-blogging the proceedings for TPM-DC: “Lincoln Voting For Debate, Still Opposes Public Option”. (That would be Sen. Blanche Lincoln [D-AR].)
Here are some tools for you to learn more and get engaged with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:
- Read, comment and link to the Senate health care bill. Scroll over any section of the 2,074-page text to leave an inline comment or create a custom permalink.
- Compare the Senate health care bill to the House bill (From NYT). Click in the left-hand column to compare major features.
- See the topline numbers. Read about the Congressional Budget Office’s score of the bill on spending, deficit reduction, coverage and more. Compare the CBO Score to other versions of health care reform legislation.
More details on the OpenCongress Blog and Twitter. As you can imagine, we’ll be covering the health care debate intensively over the weeks to come, so subscribe to our blog’s RSS feed to keep up with the latest developments.
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Just as Stephen King's "The Stand" was a battle between good and evil,
Americans are coming and will be making "Our Stand" in 2010!
Way to go Mr Ried, You have my vote.
From: Butterfield,RN.BSN
I support the Health Care Reform with the Public option.
It has been long over due. I encourage all of the Die Hearts Democrat to stick together and pass the bill
The Entire Nation is watching all of you. If you willing to give up your seat to the Rep. I say Do nothing.
The Rep. do not care about all of those people without Health Care a true /proud Democrat will vote with the President.
DDO THE RIGHT < VOTE YES all 60 DM We all counting on you. YES YES=60 Votes
I say NO! NO! NO! to government run healthcare!!!!!! The "Die Hard Dems" you refer too LOVE to spend the taxpayers money. I suggest you read between the lines what this proposed government healthcare system really means. It is NOT a good thing for the American people.
Note that Blanche Lincoln said she will have more opportunities to vote against cloture before the debate is over.