Dec 24 2009

Health care bill on brink of Senate passage (AP)

Health care bill on brink of Senate passage
(AP)

Senate Majority Leader of Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, accompanied by Senate Democrats, speaks during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. From left are, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn,, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Reid, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP – Democrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage Wednesday, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obama’s call to remake the nation’s health care system.

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