Health Care Debate to Begin in Senate Tonight

Tonight at 8:00 p.m, the Senate will vote on cloture for the health care bill.  In other words, the Senate will decide whether to begin debating it.  It appears Democrats have 58 of the necessary 60 votes to survive the first hurdle.  CNN has the story.  In a related (torts) issue, a group of medical malpractice victims held a press conference in Richmond, VA yesterday to urge Virginia’s Senators not to include med mal reform in the bill.  (PR Newswire)

–CJR