Thread: Baucus Bill Passes 14-9..........

Senate Finance Committee Approves Health Care Bill

The Senate Finance Committee votes to send its version of the legislation to the Senate floor after months of closely watched deliberations.

FOXNews.com

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Health care reform cleared a momentous hurdle Tuesday, as the Senate Finance Committee voted to send its version of the legislation to the Senate floor after months of closely watched deliberations.

The committee voted 14-9 in favor of the package. One Republican, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, broke with her party to support the bill. All 13 Democrats on the panel voted in favor of it, while the rest of the Republicans opposed it.

The panel was the last of five to act on health legislation, and the vote marked the biggest advance so far toward health care reform, as the committee's legislation is considered the best building block for a compromise plan in the full Senate.

But much work still remains on the package.

The House still needs to bring a unified version to the floor, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will begin working with White House staff, Baucus and others to blend the Finance bill with a more liberal version passed by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee - before bringing a final product to the Senate floor.

If passed, the legislation would then go to a conference committee to reconcile differences before heading to the president's desk.

The Associated Press contributed


WTF???

This seems like something the country should vote on.

Originally Posted by dukeboy

This seems like something the country should vote on.

I agree sort of. If we did it will be another election vote. All the idiots 18-35 will watch all the commercials pro reform and jump on the bandwagon cause its still cool to hate bush and love our newly appointed chocolate jesus.

Originally Posted by caleb

I agree sort of. If we did it will be another election vote. All the idiots 18-35 will watch all the commercials pro reform and jump on the bandwagon cause its still cool to hate bush and love our newly appointed chocolate jesus.

Nope.

Part of the problem the dems have with health care reform (destruction) is that they haven't been able to mobilize the younger crowd of useful idiots that got Obama elected. The people who are mobilized, and mad as hell, are the senior citizens who are opposed to it and vote religiously.

Interesting how most of it isn't set to kick in until after the next presidential election.

Originally Posted by bmick325

Nope.

I disagree

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with what????