Did you hear Snowe's vote? I couldn't hear it.

NO, she yelped.

I was there when SCHIP passed in January. Soooooo cool to watch an actual vote. I wish I was one of those people up in the gallery!

Lieberman even did.

dammit.

Lieberman? a yes?

drum rolllllllllll!

Yeah!!

ta da!

Reid put his cojones in a vice.

McColskey took her time.

I loved Reid's starting comment: "obviously they did not read the bill"

(by the way, your new avatar is awesome)

Good. Reid needed to, and to know he could.

Yays.....60 nays 39!!!

ROCK ON!

I am not a fan of the bill, but I want to move on and I want the Dems to show some guts.

Well, we don't know what the bill is yet.

I was looking for the step by step thing you were talking about, do you have a link?

yes, just a sec

(we are such nerds, doing this on a Saturday night) Got to love it.

I just watched it. Listening to McConnell lie before the vote I came within an inch of putting my boot through the TV screen.

Ha, ha Nana, such a liar.

there are two slides in this link

http://facts.kff.org/results.aspx?view=slides&detail=35

Stellaa... I planned my whole day around it. I am beyond a nerd.

phew. does it at least dial back the STUPID STUPAK amendment? What's with Snowe? I thought she was going to vote yes.

They got to 60 without Snowe so she didn't have to give up a yes for this. She voted it our of SF committee, so she feels like she did her part for health reform.

The Senate doesn't have the Stupak amendment and will probably kill it in conference.

Waking, I will have to print this stuff out and study it.

This vote was to not kill the debate and continue. The Republican vote was to basically kill Healthcare Reform in the tracks.

Stupak is stupid.

Some progress made.

Nice job! Every damn time I tried to print those at work today, it shut down my printer. Crazy.

Cool that you posted them!

Those Kaizer folks are awesome. They have done the best work in getting information out.

Ablonde, what a name that guy has.

I use them all the time. Their side-by sides are the best way to compare bills. I'm supposed to do an interview with them next week, on our state progress.

Lieberman must have caught notice of where the wind was blowing. Progress... slow.... But progress.

Yes, saw it but have not read the mammoth thing yet.

Drat! I meant to watch this and totally wiffed it. With all the sinking and nodding that had been going on, I would have been surprised if the vote failed. These maggots that keep threatening to hold out are getting on my nerves.

We are all doomed. Our only hope now is for the alien invasion to come early. I'm going to keep transmitting insults to Sigma Draconis until they come. Then we will all have to fight just to survive.
Since we will all have to fight, we will all be drafted.
And in the military we have 'universal health care coverage'.
Therefore, our only salvation is an alien invasion.
Join me outside with your flashlight. Use Morse Code...use creative insults. Save us all.

Good. Now they can get to a vote, and those who are in states where voting for health care reform may mean they're former Senators can vote against the bill. They can say I voted to allow debate and I tried to get things changed, but when I couldn't, then I voted against the bill. It may very well work.

Thanks for this Stellaa - and waking. At least this thing is moving forward.

Lieberman voted yes??????

Hmmmm, maybe he's tired of being everyone's least favorite senator! Holy cow!

Makes me want to buy a lottery ticket.

Even if we can't get everything we want and hoped for, I'm for getting whatever we can.

Very helpful chart. I only had a vague notion of the various reconciliation steps.

Check your PMs, ok?

Hey, Stellaa

Kaiser just added the Senate bill into their analysis.

"The Foundation has updated its health reform resources to reflect provisions of the Senate leadership bill that was announced November 18 and is expected to be debated in the full Senate beginning the week of November 30.

Building upon the separate legislation approved by the Senate Finance and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees earlier this year, the bill is now featured in the Foundation’s interactive side-by-side comparison tool, where it can be easily compared to the health reform bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on November 7. "

Check out the side-by-side
http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm#