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Thursday
Mar252010

NYT - G.O.P. Forces Another House Vote on Package of Changes to Health Bill

With the Senate working through an all-night session on a package of changes to the Democrats' sweeping health care legislation, Republicans identified parliamentary problems with at least two provisions that apparently will require the measure to be sent back to the House for yet another vote, once the Senate adopts it.

A Senate Democratic aide said one of the provisions in question involved changes to the Pell grant program, which is part of an education section in the reconciliation measure.

Shortly after the discovery of the parliamentary issues, at about 2:45 a.m., the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, indicated that he would bring the late-night session to a close, and that the Senate would resume work on the bill at 9:45 a.m. on Thursday.

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