Snowe Votes With Democrats, Senate Panel Passes Health Care Reform

10/13/09

In a major Democratic victory, the Senate Finance Committee voted 14 to 9 to pass its version of health care reform Tuesday afternoon. All Democrats on the committee and Maine Republican Olympia Snowe voted in favor of the bill, The remaining nine Republicans voted against it.

In explaining her vote, Snowe said the bill "bolsters what works in the system," adding, "Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it. But when history calls, history calls."

Snowe's support for the bill marks the first committee-level Republican to vote in favor of health care reform this year and gives a crucial edge to Democrats as they push forward on their plans to reform the health care. With 60 votes in the Senate, Democrats can theoretically defeat a Republican filibuster on health care. But the frail health of Sen. Robert Byrd and the moderate impulses of several conservative Democrats have left Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid with no room for absence or dissent in his caucus.

source: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/13/snowe-votes-with-democrats-senate-panel-passes-health-care-refo/

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