WASHINGTON--The Senate advanced historic health care legislation on a 60-40 party line vote at 1:08 Monday morning, clearing a critical procedural hurdle. Illinois Democratic Senators Dick Durbin and Roland Burris voted yes. Sixty votes were needed to avoid a filibuster on the legislation. The vote on the bill could [...]
Senate Democrats held a caucus-wide meeting last night to iron out the final details on a compromise of the chamber's health care legislation. Late Tuesday, the so-called "gang of 10" struck a deal that would jettison the watered-down public option that's currently in the bill and instead expand Medicare eligibility to [...]
President Obama on Wednesday was upbeat about the progress the Senate was making on health care legislation. He praised the "creative framework" that may let a deal be cut.
With the public option health insurance plan not going anywhere, a group of Senate moderates and liberals [...]
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say the Associated Press has an opinion on the health care reform debate that began today in Congress.
Riven by partisanship, the Senate plunged into a widely anticipated debate Monday over sweeping health care legislation that President Barack [...]
Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
The 60-39 vote cleared [...]
WASHINGTON--Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) just announced from the Senate floor--in a rare Saturday session--that she will vote to allow the Democratic championed health care legislation to proceed. Democratic Senate leaders needed a supermajority, 60 votes, to avoid a filibuster and proceed to the underlying legislation. The vote on the [...]
