Democrats set the ball rolling
WASHINGTON: A sweeping health-care overhaul has narrowly cleared its first hurdle in the US Senate, with Democrats casting 60 party-line votes to open debate on the biggest health-care changes in decades.
Mon, Nov 23, 2009
The Straits Times
WASHINGTON: A sweeping health-care overhaul has narrowly cleared its first hurdle in the US Senate, with Democrats casting 60 party-line votes to open debate on the biggest health-care changes in decades.
In the first Senate test for President Barack Obama's top priority on his domestic agenda, Democrats last Saturday unanimously backed a motion to open debate over the opposition of 39 Republicans.
Republican George Voinovich did not vote.
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