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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“On to fascism, folks” El Rushbo said in closing his show, today.
So, if it was 14-9 why was her vote even needed?
Looks like 13-10 was enough to pass the committee.
This woman is such a turncoat. She should be drummed out of the party.
Go ahead Olympia, become a democRAT....you’re a RAT already.
Rush said that he would tell us when it was time to panic.
Is he doing his show from New Zealand on Wednesday?
Dear Maine,
Go away.
Sincerely,
America
If Republicans fail to gain as many seats as expected next year, the elites will scream as always that it is because the party has “moved too far to the right.” BS as usual. They should blame Snowe and her cohorts. Thanks to her action it shows a lack of cohesiveness in the party. By siding with the Dems and giving this bill a look of “bipartisanship,” many conservative Republicans will stay home in 2010, and probably a good number of independents who might have voted Republican will be turned off. I hope I am wrong but I think that is a realistic scenario.
This woman is such a turncoat. She should be drummed out of the party.
We need a mechanism to toss people out of the party.
We could have gotten rid of the pervs before the ‘06 cycle.
Could have gotten rid of the crooks in Ohio before ‘08.
Could have kicked McCain, Graham, Snowe, Collins to the curb long ago.
The flaws in the GOP primary system that gave us McCain have not been fixed. This is very bad!
This is what you get when the GOP loses 11 Senate Seats in two consecutive election cycles.
Elections Have Consequences.
Snowe claims she is not supporting the bill, but voted to continue the process. Then why did she not say so and vote against this bill?
Would Canada like Maine?
Snowe said she didn’t support the bill but voted for it to get the discussion going....how nuts.
“Elections Have Consequences”....?
The current GOP has consequences.
Exactly one republican vote is all the media needs to run with “Bipartisan” and that is all you will hear. She is a vile Traitor!
We’re SO SCREWED
“I just heard ABC radio say that this is bipartisan!”
Olympia Fig Leaf gives the Dems whatever they want if they’ll just give her her 15 minutes of fame every time one of these important votes comes up. They laugh at her behind her back, I’m sure, because she is such a pathetic patsy.
They always say that when Senators Snowe or Collins vote with the Democrats.
In all actuality, we should call this “The George W. Bush Healthcare Bill” on the account that if he had not helped the Democrats pick-up 11 Senate Seats in two years, this bill would have never passed.
Snowe used to be a Republican but then, she drifted
call you local radio netwooerk and demand they get rid of abc radio news.
my local radio station quit abc news after a sea of complaints !
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