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Defend America on Saturday, December 19, 2009 9:50:30 AM
Sen. Ben Nelson to announce support for health-care bill
By Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 19, 2009;
9:41 AM
Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the final Democratic holdout on health care,
was prepared to announce to his caucus Saturday morning that he would
support the Senate reform bill, clearing the way for final passage by
Christmas.
"We're there," said Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), as he headed into a special meeting to announce the deal.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/19/AR2009121900797_pf.html
If you thought that Nelson was holding out was because of abortion, well we now know that is not true because the bill that he has agreed to does not have the strong language against taxpayer funding of abortion like the Stupak amendment in the House bill did and instead Nelson just got bought off like Senator Landrieu did when Majority Leader Reid needed her vote for cloture to move forward with the health care bill. The price was just an extra year of Medicaid subsidies to his home state of Nebraska.