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...added that only the government can ensure competition and prevent monopolies...
...what happens. Nobody should be filibustering health care - either vote it up or vote it down." Says Dianne Feinstein of California: "If there is a public option and somebody wants to remove it, move an amendment, stand up on the floor and debate it, but don't prevent anything from going forward...
...Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, for example, all have strong reservations about a government-run alternative to private insurers. But Lieberman is the only one who has stated flat-out that he would join a GOP filibuster of the bill to prevent it from getting an up-or-down vote. And unlike his other moderate Democratic colleagues, he has claimed he's not even open to the compromise proposal that Republican Senator Olympia Snowe has been pushing - a so-called trigger mechanism whereby a state would be able to access a national...
...have his 60 votes locked down for it, the betting is that he will. More uncertain is whether he will find that many to get the bill out of the Senate, which will require a second, more contentious vote to cut off the promised filibuster. (See how to prevent illness...
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