The Senate Finance Committee worked until the wee hours of Friday morning to vote on amendments to its health care bill before adjourning until Tuesday when, after the Congressional Budget Office weighs in on the spending implications of the package, it will hold a final vote.
The delay was baked into the cake several days ago when the committee agreed not to hold a vote on a bill that hadn’t received a preliminary analysis from the CBO.
The progress prompted a statement from the White House, which you can read here.
If the panel advances the legislation, Senate health care leaders, White House officials, and Majority Leader Harry Reid will meet to merge it with the more liberal HELP Committee bill, and introduced on the Senate floor later this fall.
