The Senate Finance Committee votes for this beast today and it should move forward to the Senate floor (week of 19th) to be combined with the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee bill before heading for House-Senate conference. Olympia Snowe is talking about mechanics on C-Span3 right now. I had a signature quote when I started, but I removed it because I find those things generally annoying, but have some of this today: "The truth is pretty simple. It's the mechanics of making it work that breaks men down."- HST

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Opening majority statement
Opening minority statement

Happy birthday Maria Cantwell.

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Update: Approved 14-9 and the disc golf course at Morningside is a little muddy.