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Bill Nelson: 'Olympia Makes It Bipartisan'
Ben Frumin | October 13, 2009, 1:04PM
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
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Appearing on MSNBC a few moments ago, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) seemed quite pleased by the news that Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) would vote for the Senate Finance Committee health insurance reform bill.
"It'll now be a 14-9 vote coming out of Finance Committee," he said. "That's a huge margin. Olympia makes it bipartisan. This is a first step in a long process, but it's an extremely important first step."
Nelson also had a prediction:
"Susan Collins now will likely come with her fellow Maine senator once they vote on the floor."
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Stan of the Sawgrass
October 13, 2009 1:27 PM
I'm floored! Maybe Bill really IS a Democrat after all!
Now let's see him prove it on the public option..
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lcdrrek
October 13, 2009 1:32 PM
It's a little difficult for me to see how getting 1 GOP vote on a bill out of the Finance Committee is anything close to bipartisan. Besides, I am of the thought that in order to get that 1 vote the Dems have ceded way too much power to this insignificant member of the Senate.
I fear that Baucus and the White House will let her write the bill.
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ohyeathatsright
October 13, 2009 2:04 PM in reply to lcdrrek
Agreed. I'm not impressed. Especially because you've got Lieberman saying he won't support it. We're running on a treadmill with this bill and it's just getting weaker and weaker without any forward progress.
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tiowally
October 13, 2009 1:35 PM
Bipartisan my ass. Snowe Queen represents one-half of one percent of the U.S. population. She should be viewed as exactly what she is: obstructionist scum.
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Mateo123
October 13, 2009 3:16 PM
yes, but I thought I heard Bill Nelson suggest that we need a public option and without one, the bill won't do enough. Indeed, the interviewer, Rick Sanchez, asked why someone would oppose the public option and I thought I heard Bill say, "the insurance companies oppose the option so the GOP opposes the option." Maybe I am wrong, but hearing him speak after the vote made me believe that, after all this wrangling, maybe we get a public option.
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