Reid rolling out big guns to push healthcare bill to 60 needed votes

[cal04]

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/68541-reid-rolling-out-big-guns-to-get-to-60

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has recruited an all-star team of former senators — Vice President Joe Biden, Tom Daschle and Ken Salazar — to push healthcare reform over the finish line.

Reid (D-Nev.) plotted strategy with the vice president, Interior Secretary Salazar and former Majority Leader Daschle (D-S.D.) on Wednesday, days ahead of a crucial vote to begin debate on the bill that needs every Democrat.

Reid’s all-star team indicates that the administration and Democratic leadership are now using all the persuading power and arm-twisting prowess available to them to carry President Barack Obama’s signature agenda item to a successful conclusion.

A handful of Democratic centrists are holding out on the procedural vote, wanting time to read the legislation.



Daschle is still go-to guy on healthcare
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/68533-tom-daschle-is-still-the-go-to-guy-on-healthcare

[emulatorloo]

1. Joe, "God love 'em," will talk so much Ben Nelson will be begging to vote for cloture.

More power to him. GO JOE!!!!!

Daschle should be good too, don't know much about Salazar. Maybe the "moderates" will respond to him.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Use the biggest gun of them all - nuclear option

Make the Rethuglicans sit in a corner so all the Democrats can caucus bills needed to revitalize America after Chimp's 8 long years of destruction.

Hawkeye-X