Senator Harry Reid's attempt to move $247 billion in health care
spending to a separate bill has failed, as he came far short of
the 60 votes needed to cut off debate and proceed to vote.
In fact, the cloture vote on the bill to prevent scheduled cuts
to Medicare doctors' payments without offsetting spending cuts or
new tax revenue did not even get a simple majority, with just 47
Senators voting to cut of debate, and 53 Senators voting against
the measure.
While I don't yet have a full roll call, among the Democrats
voting against were Sens. Kent Conrad, Byron Dorgan, Russ
Feingold, Joe Lieberman, Claire McCaskill, Mark Warner, Jim Webb
and Ron Wyden.
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