Last night Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) ratcheted up the pressure on Majority Leader Harry Reid to include a public option provision when he melds the Baucus bill with the Kennedy bill:
If he puts it in the final bill, in the combined bill, then you would need 60 votes to remove it. And there clearly are not 60 votes against the public option. And so we’re urging him to do that, and he’s seriously considering it.
More here on the push to shift the onus to reform opponents to strip public option from the bill.
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