Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's health care bill with his manager's amendment (the compromises Reid has added to get the 60 votes necessary to end the Republican filibuster) has been introduced to the Senate floor. Yesterday Republicans, using a delaying tactic, requested that the entire 383-page amendment be read on the Senate floor. The Senate will convene at 1:00 PM today to continue debating the bill. At 11:30 PM, the Senate will take a 30-minute break. A cloture vote (the only procedure the Senate has to place a time limit on consideration of a bill and thus break a filibuster) will be taken at 1:00 AM Monday morning on the manager's amendment. The cloture vote requires 60 votes to pass and, with the sell-out of Senator Nelson (Nebraska) on abortion funding, Reid says he has the 60 votes.
Our nation stands in danger of changing our long-standing principle of not using public funds to pay for elective abortions. I pray that our Senators will be sobered by the realization they will one day have to stand before Almighty God and give account for their votes. May God convict them that abortion is the taking of human life. There is still time for Senators to change their minds on this issue and block the abortion-funding legislation. May God have mercy on our nation.
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