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Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) appears to have secured the 60 votes needed to move an $848 billion health-care reform bill to the Senate floor for debate.
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CNN:
Senate Democrat Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas says she will support bringing the health care reform bill to the floor for debate, giving Democrats the 60 votes they need to prevent a Republican filibuster.
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CNN:
Senate Democrats need 60 votes to overcome a certain GOP filibuster attempt and open the chamber's debate on its version of the health care reform bill.
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washingtonpost.com - In Congress:
As a health reform bill endorsed by President Obama marches toward its first Senate floor vote on Saturday, his opponents stepped up efforts to define the legislation as big-government ambition run amok that will interfere wi (Read More)
The Guardian:
Jean-Claude Trichet said it was time to unwind some of the measures that propped up the banking system during the financial crisisEuropean Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet warned today that banks risk becoming add (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
The number of defamation cases that reached the high court surged by 11% in 2008 to a four-year high, as foreign claimants took advantage of the UK's tougher laws to seek "libel tourism" awards from publishers.A total of 259 (Read More)
The Guardian:
The mood in Brussels is bleak as experts agree politicking has triumphed over ambition in the appointment of two new leaders, writes Ian TraynorEurope's hopes of translating its economic power into global political clout have (Read More)
CNN:
The health care bill that faces a crucial test vote in the Senate on Saturday is proof that getting reform passed and getting it right are two very different things. (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Editorials:
THE HEALTH-REFORM legislation unveiled Wednesday night deserves to be considered on the Senate floor. This is the only real question facing wavering senators who have concerns about particular provisions or about the overall (Read More)
The Guardian:
Choice of European council president seen as move to block Turkish accession to EURobert Tait IstanbulEurope's new president, Herman Van Rompuy, faced a furious backlash in Turkey yesterday amid reports of his hostility to th (Read More)
The Guardian:
Denuclearisation will only come when bridges have been built with Pyongyang and it feels firmly set on a new economic courseNegotiations over the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula look set to resume. Sadly, they are un (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The NHS should be freed from direct government control and run as a separate body without political interference, according to its former chief executive.In an article that will be interpreted as support for Conservative refo (Read More)
The Guardian:
Ahead of the Senate's first major test vote on healthcare reform, the Dems who refuse to show their cards face a political paradoxOnce upon a time, I was involved in a union negotiation. Yes, I was on the union side, at the V (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Tory David Curry stood down as head of standards and privileges committee pending inquiry into second home claimsThe Tory MP in charge of the Commons standards and privileges committee, who stood down pending an inquiry into (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The UK's constitutional jigsaw still needs to be completed, and politics looks set to become increasingly territorialIt has probably escaped the attention of all but the most assiduous Guardian reader, but this week marked an (Read More)