Monday, November 09, 2009

The Six Senators Who Will Decide the Fate of Health Care Reform

TPM writes about The Six Senators Who Will Decide the Fate of Health Care Reform. "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid faces a number of obstacles to passing health care reform but his main task is to keep his caucus united for not one, but two, supermajority votes, just to get the reform bill an up or down on the Senate floor. Failure to get 60 votes to push past either of those two procedural chokepoints could derail the reform bill. Here are the six key holdouts Reid must wrangle to reach the magic threshold."

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