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Dems Get 60 Votes on Health Care Bill During 1:00 am Vote

By Jeralyn

Update: 1:17 am ET: The Dems get their 60 votes to limit debate. Yeas: 60, Neas: 40. The Yeas were 58 Dems and 2 Independents. The motion is agreed to.

Update: 1:10 am ET: The vote to limit debate on the Reid Manager's amendment is underway. They just wheeled Sen. Byrd in. The schedule if it passes:

• Tues: 7am: procedural vote
• Weds: 1pm procedural vote
• Thursday 7 pm - Final passage

The Senate will vote on the health care bill in an hour, at 1:00 a.m. ET. David Shuster will be anchoring live on MSNBC.

Debate has begun, you can watch it on C-span here. [More...]

Our local news is calling it a test vote, and it's just the first of three the Senate needs to pass the bill. It's called a Cloture Vote on the Manager's Amendment.

Here's the schedule for what follows, through Christmas Eve. And then what happens in the House? Some possibilities here.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).