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(2009-10-08)
A vital health care vote is set in the Senate, as Democrats revel in a report that suggests the bill would reduce the federal deficit.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that the Finance Committee will vote Tuesday on the 10-year, $829-billion proposal that would expand coverage to 94 percent of eligible Americans, according to the Congressional Budget Office report.
The Nevada Democrat also laid into Republicans, saying they're following a strategy of "distortion, distractions and deception," and challenged them to be "productive partners rather than partisan protesters."
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was quick to respond, calling the CBO report irrelevant" because Democrats would pump up the Finance Committee bill as it makes its way through Congress.
Finance is the fifth and last of the congressional panels to debate health care.
© Copyright 2012, Associated Press
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