The Washington Post
December 24, 2009
By Lori Montgomery and Alec MacGillis
At 7 a.m. Thursday, the Senate plans to push landmark health-care legislation over the finish line with the last in a string of midnight and daybreak votes capping months of infighting and procedural delays. And with that, the hardest work of all will begin: reckoning with long-standing differences with the House and uniting behind a single bill that can be sent to the president.
Democrats are already outlining a strategy to achieve a final compromise that can satisfy the more liberal House without upsetting the painstakingly assembled coalition of 60 Senate Democrats and independents. more …
