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washingtonmonthly.com - 10/23/2009
'Leaning toward' a public option
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'LEANING TOWARD' A PUBLIC OPTION.... Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) briefed Sen. Ben. Nelson (D-Neb.) and other Democratic "centrists" this morning on the status of the discussions merging the two Senate health care reform bills. Nelson wasn't thrilled...
politico.com - 10/22/2009
Nelson: Reid, WH "leaning toward" public option
— politico.com — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and the White House are leaning towards including a national public option... -- with a provision for states to opt out of it -- in the Senate health care bill, Sen. Ben. Nelson (D-Neb.) said Thursday.  ... (more) Nelson: Reid, WH "leaning toward" public option

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Nelson, Conrad Say Dems, White House Leaning Toward Including Public Option In Senate Health Care Bill
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/22/2009
Nelson, Conrad Say Dems, White House Leaning Toward Including Public Option In Senate Health ...
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — If this is accurate, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) gets a medal for prescience and Sen. Olympia Snowe's... decision may be made for her. Two high profile conservative Democrats are saying they hear that Senate and White House health care negotiators are ... (more) Nelson, Conrad Say Dems, White House Leaning Toward ...

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theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 10/29/2009
Conrad: I Will Vote To Bring Health Care Bill To Debate, And My Colleagues Should Do Same
— theplumline.whorunsgov.com — In another step forward for health care reform, a key moderate Dem Senator says he will vote... to bring the bill with a public option and an opt-out to the floor — getting the bill past a key procedural vote — and suggested his colleagues ... (more) Conrad: I Will Vote To Bring Health Care Bill To Debate, ...

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The Reaction:  Behold, the public option! -- Senate Democrats may be "leaning" towards it.

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Behold, the public option! -- Senate Democrats may be "leaning" towards it.
The Reaction — ... are, like the Republicans, opposed to a public option. As Steve Benen notes, though, Democrats seem to be "leaning toward some sort of national public option," in Nelson's words. Kent Conrad concurred: "What I'm hearing is this is the direction of the conversation." ...

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