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Senate Bill narrowly passed. Final Passage may take Months

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The $1 trillion Senate bill that passed last weekend for the health care overhaul passed by one of the narrowest margins, as it passed with two votes to spare. Only one other such significant legislation passed in the past, and that was the Congressional passage of Medicare in 1965.
One lone republican voted for the bill, Republican Joseph Cao of Louisiana. Unlike him, 39 Senate conservative Democrats voted against the bill. It passed mainly because of one specific reason, and that was to give abortion opponents a vote on an amendment preventing any of the subsidies in the bill from paying for abortion. The abortion issue, is another topic in itself. Anti-abortion Democrats, but upset abortion-rights supporters. Despite the significant and historic step that Democrats were able to take on Saturday, it could be months before a bill goes to the president's desk. And the bill that House and Senate negotiators ultimately produce could be vastly different than the one agreed to by a bare majority of the House. Watch immediately below the announcement of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announce the passage of the bill.



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