Government Affairs Update - Week Ending December 19, 2009

Health Care Reform: As of Saturday night, it looked like the Senate was on track to pass its version of a health care reform bill right before Christmas. This morning, Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) released the “manager’s amendment”, which made all the changes to the original combined Senate health care bill that he needed to make to be sure he had 60 Democratic votes to stop debate on the bill and move to final passage. Passage of the Senate bill will set up a conference with the House to reconcile the two bills. The stated goal is to have the final bill to the President by the State of the Union address, which is in later January. Read More from NCPA