{"id":20457,"date":"2009-12-21T09:35:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=20457"},"modified":"2009-12-21T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:47:04","slug":"health-bill-passes-key-test-in-the-senate-with-60-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/health-bill-passes-key-test-in-the-senate-with-60-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Bill Passes Key Test in the Senate With 60 Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

from today’s New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 After a long day of acid, partisan debate, Democrats held ranks early Monday in a dead-of-night procedural vote that proved they had locked in the decisive margin needed to pass a far-reaching overhaul of the nation\u2019s health care system.<\/p>\n

The roll was called shortly after 1 a.m., with Washington still snowbound after a weekend blizzard, and the Senate voted on party lines to cut off a Republican filibuster of a package of changes to the health care bill by the majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada.<\/p>\n

The vote was 60 to 40 \u2014 a tally that is expected to be repeated four times as further procedural hurdles are cleared in the days ahead, and then once more in a dramatic, if predictable, finale tentatively scheduled for 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n

Both parties hailed the vote as seismic.<\/p>\n

The full article can be found <\/em>here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>—–<\/p>\n

NOTE: Apparently, Republicans were so determined to make sure Democrats did not have enough votes, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) asked in Senate session to pray that ailing Senator Robert Byrd’s (D-WV) health condition would worsen, or that he would die, making him unable to attend last night’s vote. Apparently, God did not hear the good Senator from Oklahoma, and from what we heard from <\/em>the Washington Post,<\/em><\/strong><\/a> Byrd did make it in. Pretty good for a 92 year-old guy in a blizzard.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a key test vote. More votes are to come over the next few days, with the hope of signing the bill into law on Dec. 24. Regardless of where you stand on the health care debate, whether or not we need an overhaul of the health care industry, whether or not you think the current health care reform bill insufficient to the demand, this is a sea change in American politics that hasn’t happened since Medicare was first signed into law in 1965. Any victory is a step forward, and as a people, we need a victory.--fnb<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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