“Senate Democrats watched Sunday dawn from the Senate floor still on track to pass their signature climate, tax and health care package after slogging through an all-night attempt by Republicans to force changes,” Politico reports.
“The $700 billion-plus party-line legislation remained unscathed after more than six hours of ‘vote-a-rama,’ the amendment marathon that allows any senator to force a vote on proposed tweaks to the measure. As of early Sunday morning, the upper chamber had voted on about a dozen and a half potential changes, all of which fell short of the support needed to alter the Democrats’ bill.”
“That was thanks to near-complete unity among Democrats in defeating amendments. The party’s senators locked arms to ward off any changes that could endanger the fragile coalition needed to steer their legislation to passage under rules that allow them to avoid a filibuster.”
