Reid Files For Cloture. And Cloture. And Cloture. On Health Care Reform

Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)
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The Senate has just entered its long glide toward passage of health care legislation. Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed for cloture on his manager’s amendment to his reform bill, as well as to the reform package, and the shell bill it will be attached to. He then “filled the amendment tree” on health care bill, preventing it from being further amended beyond the amendments in his manager’s package.

All of that is a really technical way of saying: the clock is running. In the coming days, the Senate will hold a series of votes, likely spaced about 30 hours apart, which will culminate in passage of health care legislation–unless, of course, Reid does not in fact have 60 supporters, as he says he does.

We’ll be there at every step of the process.

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