Blanche Lincoln
No Deal On Health Care?
Whatever President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are saying about a milestone compromise on health care legislation, centrist Democrats Mary Landrieu and Blanche Lincoln are clearly not on the same page. Both senators insisted on Wednesday that no concrete deal had been reached on a reform bill, only an agreement to get scores […]
Senate Health Care Bill Gets 60 Votes And Moves Forward For Debate
UPDATE II: With 60 votes easily in hand, Democrats stopped a mostly symbolic GOP filibuster attempt and sent Harry Reid’s health care legislation moving forward for more debate in a 60-39 Saturday night vote.
It’s a big win for Reid, Senate Democrats and the White House after a week of anxiety over whether Dems would have […]
