The Senate Finance Committee’s version of ObamaCare passed today with a vote of 14 to 9. Olympia Snowe (D-ME) was the only Republican to the support the bill. (video below)
At the White House, Obama called the events “a critical milestone” toward remaking the nation’s health care system. He praised Snowe as well as Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), chairman of the committee, and declared, “We are going to get this done.”
The next move in the Senate is up to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), whose office said the full Senate would begin debate on the issue the week of October 26. Reid must first blend the bill that cleared during the day with a version that passed earlier in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP).
“The bottom line here is we need a final bill, a merged bill, that gets 60 votes,” Baucus said. “Our goal is to pass health care reform not just talk about it.”
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