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Reid: We have votes for Senate fix-it bill
NY Post ^ | March 20, 2010 | AP

Posted on 03/21/2010 4:19:14 AM PDT by Scanian

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he has enough votes to push changes in the health care overhaul bill through the Senate.

House leaders expect to pass the Senate's version of the legislation tomorrow.

House Democrats want to make changes in that bill — and those fixes will come in a different measure that would require the Senate's OK.

House Democrats have been worried that their changes might die in the Senate and leave representatives vulnerable to campaign attacks.

But Reid was at a meeting of House Democrats today and tried to reassure them.

He said he had "the commitment of a significant majority" of Senators to help send health care legislation to the White House.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; democrats; obamacare; reconciliation
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To: dan on the right
...or they roll and the Senate just passes the fixes and the “improved” bill becomes law.

Well, if what dingy hairy has been saying - there is supposedly a provision that this bill can never be changed - they will be passing a bill that many dims are against.

21 posted on 03/21/2010 6:24:21 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (All comments about the current communist congress are now self censored.)
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