Weekly Pulse: Senate Prepares to Cast First Votes

Posted Dec 2, 2009 @ 12:29 pm by Lindsay Beyerstein

Filed under: Health Care    

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium Blogger

The Senate is scheduled to begin voting on proposed amendments to the health care reform bill today. It takes 60 votes to pass an amendment and most of the proposed measures for the health care bill will never pass. It’s a great opportunity to grandstand over pet issues, however. (more…)