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...public option - as it currently does. "I feel so strongly about the creation of another government health-insurance entitlement," Lieberman told CBS's Bob Schieffer. "I think it's such a mistake that I would use the power I have as a single Senator to stop a final vote." Just days before that, he told ABC News he intended to campaign for both Republican and Democratic candidates in next year's midterm elections. And late last month, in a rare oversight hearing of the Obama Administration, he examined the legality of the President's so-called czars - a favorite bone...
...think if you break it down even further, over 80% of Democrats - and this is going to be a Democratic bill - want a public option," says Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the only other independent in the Senate. Sanders was one of a handful of Dems who voted to boot Lieberman from the party back in January and says that if given the chance, he'd do it again. Rumors have swirled on Capitol Hill and on liberal blogs that if Lieberman follows through with his threat, he could face such a vote, though Sanders demurs. "I leave that...
...that the House has passed its health care bill with a vote of 220 to 215, Democrats on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue feel an even greater sense of urgency. Momentum is crucial for Barack Obama's top domestic priority, and time is his enemy. While Reid still says passage of a final bill is possible by the end of the year, that is looking more and more doubtful. Speaking from his experience of watching the slow death of his health care bill, Clinton told the Senators they must get one to Obama's desk by the State...
...difficult and close as the health care vote turned out to be in the House - requiring a last-minute deal by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to appease antiabortion Democrats and secure her 5-vote margin - things get exponentially more complicated in the Senate. There the ideological balance among Democrats is closer than in the liberal House, and the rules allow amendments that could send the bill in almost any direction. Most crucially, it will take a supermajority of 60 votes - exactly the number Reid has in his Democratic caucus - to progress in the face of a GOP filibuster...
...hard to overestimate the complexity of Reid's task. His first challenge, which is expected to come as soon as he can obtain cost estimates for his bill from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), will be to get the legislation onto the floor, with a normally routine procedural vote known as a "motion to proceed." While Reid doesn't 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...