Posted on 03/24/2010 11:51:54 PM PDT by Nachum
Senate Republicans are making a last-ditch effort Wednesday to derail health care legislation by forcing Democrats to vote on a series of politically dicey matters relating to the health care "fixes" sent over by the House this week.
The "fix-it" bill makes adjustments to the legislation President Obama signed into law Tuesday.
Republicans are raising a series of amendments in hopes of changing any part of the "fix-it" bill to delay implementation and send it back to the House for additional votes.
The Senate will vote on 20 to 25 amendments -- including ones to ban various Medicare cuts, special deals and wasteful spending.
Senate Democrats are seeking to kill all the GOP amendments and have defeated the first 14, including one that would have prevented Medicare from being raided for new entitlements and another to eliminate special deals for certain states.
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Great! Just getting all of those votes "ON THE RECORD"... great campaign material.
Uh, why is the Senate voting right now with the 51 vote to table?
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