The first big test of whether health care reform legislation will make it through the Senate will come at around 8:00 p.m. on Saturday night. The Senate will consider a “motion to proceed” that will allow the health care debate to start. That’s right, the Senate needs 60 votes to say, “OK, we’ll debate the health care bill.” Assuming there are 60 votes to move forward, there will be lots more votes over the coming weeks.
This isn’t how we usually spend our Saturday nights at Rock the Vote, but this is important and most of us have already seen New Moon. We know where your Senator will be at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday . . . where will you be?
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