 |
Add to My Group
Guaranteed; Initial Senate Bill Will Not Have A Public Option
By Rob Kall (about the author) Page 1 of 1 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Rob Kall - Writer
It's just about a 100% certainty that the draft of the senate bill that goes out to the floor for a vote, first facing filibuster, will not include the public option.
That way, Lieberman, Baucus and the gang of Republicrats will have no excuse help prevent the GOP filibuster. There may even be Republicans who go along, like Olympia Snowe. They will have been given cover, allowed to only vote on a bill that met the criteria they "so boldly" set.
Once the bill gets into conference, the house and senate can get together and add the public option and it will only take 51 senate votes to pass. They might even try to pull out the anti-abortion amendment, since so many of them Bluedogs who voted for the house anti-abortion amendment failed to vote for the reform bill. That's far less likely.
The question is in the way Harry Reid handles this. Lieberman and Snowe understand all this. Will they vote to pass a bill without a public option, knowing that it may be added? That's going to be the big question.
Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and site architect of OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360 AM), President of Futurehealth, Inc, (more...)
The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author
and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.
 Contact Author |
Contact Editor |
 View Authors' Articles |
by U.S. Congressional Budget Office
Number of pages:
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
by Harry Francis Minor
Number of pages:
Publisher:
by U.S. Congressional Budget Office
Number of pages:
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
by Harry L Hogan
Number of pages: 40
Publisher: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
Login to Post a Comment:
If you are having problems logging in, click here
If you have not yet registered with OpEdNews, it's easy:
 |
First, you'll enter your name and choose a username, password, etc. |
 |
Then, you'll review your information and verify. |
 |
Later, you can add more details to your user profile. |
17 comments 
|
Want to post your own comment on this Article?
|
||||
|
||||||||||||||
Must Read (0) 
Well Said (0) 
News (0) 
Touching (0) 
Funny (0) 
Supported (0) 
Interesting (1) 
Inspiring (0) 
Valuable (0) Tell a Friend:
|
Copyright © 2002-2009, OpEdNews |
