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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled a 3:15 press conference to announce details of the consolidated Democratic health care bill he has been negotiating behind closed doors, which according to several press accounts will include a national government-plan that individual states could opt out of. The Politico reports that Reid has 56 or 57 votes for such a plan. If this fails, Reid could support a "trigger" that would create a government plan if certain targets aren't met, which is something Sen. Olympia Snowe supports and could get 59 votes, but is less popular among liberals. The big question is whether the handful of Democrats who oppose the government plan in some form would support a Republican filibuster, or provide the 60 votes Reid needs to bring a vote to the floor, and then vote against the final bill, which would then only need a simple majority to pass.
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tj| 10.26.09 @ 2:22PM
VOTE EM ALL OUT.... TERM Limits....They shove this down my our throats... there will be he-- to pay come 2010. If its not good enough for thee... then its not good enough for me!!!!! Stand up people fight, write and protest on all levels...This is treason!
Tim| 10.26.09 @ 2:24PM
Just in time for Halloween.
Pete| 10.26.09 @ 5:53PM
I am soooo pissed, and frustrated! Vote anyone, who votes this scam health care bill, out in 2010!
Better yet, lets kidnap Reid, and Pelosi, and send them to Afghanistan, and let them see what real life is like, on the front line. Maybe we will get lucky, and Pelosi will get popped in her big, foolish, mouth!