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Posted on 10/13/2009 11:58:40 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Senate Finance Panel Approves Health Bill, 14-9
By GREG HITT and JANET ADAMY [Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe smiles at Democratic Sen. Max Baucus (left) moments before she announced her support for the Finance Committee's health-care bill.] Getty Images
Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe smiles at Democratic Sen. Max Baucus (left) moments before she announced her support for the Finance Committee's health-care bill.
WASHINGTON – The Senate Finance Committee Tuesday approved its health-overhaul measure, pushing a revamp of the U.S.'s health-care system closer to reality than it has been in decades.
The vote was 14-9, with Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine the only Republican to join the 13 Democrats on the panel. Ms. Snowe indicated earlier in the day that she would support the measure.
The Senate Finance panel, led by Chairman Max Baucus, becomes the last of five congressional panels to act on a health-overhaul bill, and it marks the biggest step forward yet for President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. The Baucus-proposed 10-year, $829 billion plan would require all Americans to purchase insurance and aims to hold down spiraling medical costs over the long term.
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WHY DO YOU SAY WE ARE SCREWED? IT GOES TO THE FLOOR FOR A VOTE...IT CAN STILL BE STOPPED...SEE THEY WANT EVEYONE TO RETREAT...VOTE YES!..BIPARTISAN...OH ITS OVER GO HOME...NOTHIN TO SEE HEAR!....BS!!! IT AINT OVER!!
READY TO FIGHT! DONT STOP BUT NOW START CALLING YOUR CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS...WE NEED ANOTHER GATHERING!!
STOP THE MADNESS!
Yeah...I need to do that or listen to a station that has Fox News.
Maybe, (big maybe) they’re pulling a little rope-a-dope on Lincoln, getting her on the record as a yes vote on this. Surely, she wanted the cover of the yea vote of Snowe, who isn’t up for reelection for years. It gives her opponents more ammunition to hammer her with. The bill would have made it out of committee anyway even without Lincoln and Snowe’s yea votes.
Probably wishful thinking again...
You are correct GWB did help the Democrats, but so did the other weaker than weak RINO’s.
RINO Candidate = Hell No, you will NEVER Ever again get my vote.
The problem is that Snowe represents the 60th or 61st vote.
I found it interesting that when the GOP held their presser after the vote, the media didn’t even ask them a question like the media wasn’t at all bothered or interested to know the other side of the story.
The problem is that Snowe represents the 60th or 61st vote.
Amen. The fight has only begun. Let Harry Reid in a back room gut the Baucus bill, add a public option, have the CBO report an astronomical score, and we’ll soon learn that the bill is DOA. Then we elect GOP governors in VA and NJ in three weeks and there won’t be a Blue Dog in the House that will vote for this crap.
This war is far from over. Keep calling your senators.
Republicans in Maine need to start a Promise Vote note to Ms. Snowe...You vote yes...I vote no in 2010! Signatures and send to her office!
WRT the vote, it was totally expected. Simple arithmetic. We don't have the votes to stop anything the 'Rats want to ram through. Beating on Olympia Snowe is an easy target, but the fact is we lost the last two elections by huge margins, and this was going to pass whether Snowe or any other 'Pub voted for it or not.
Lincoln is climbing out on a ledge from which she can never recover. The problem is that she had no choice. If she had voted no in committee, the DSCC would have cut off her funding.
Senator Snowe is not up for re-election until 2014. There are lots of good Senate races to effect next year if you want to pull the Senate to the right.
I am moving back to Hawaii where it is already Socialist and will not be as big of a shock when the full brunt of Obamunism hits. Also there are no Greyhound Bus Stations.
Crap! Oh Well...there are plenty of fish to burn!
Going to watch Beck for a little help...need something to hang on to
ABC radio is lying. One vote does not bipartisan make. Most people above the 1st grade can figure that out for themselves.
No...ABC reported that the White House said this! Pathetic!
There is still a ways to go:
Combine with other Senate committee bills, get 60 votes or use reconciliation process to pass a final bill. Then, go to joint House Senate conference to reconcile those two bills and finally back to House and Senate to pass final bill. That said, something is gonna pass, probably by Thanksgiving.
OK, time to take on Olympia Friggin Snowe. What options do we have to get her to leave the party? How can we help force her out of office (since most of don’t live in Maine?) I’m so mad at this woman I can’t see straight......
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