- they start over with a new "friendlier" bill and pass it using budget reconciliation.
- ANOTHER Republican jump-the-fence and join the Democrats (Olympia Snowe).
- they act before Brown can be sworn-in.
Lets not forget that the Dems are only in this spot because Sen. Kennedy had the Mass. legislature change an election law back to its original version, allowing the governor of Massachusetts to appoint an interim senator. Sen. Kennedy had originally had this low reversed due to the presence of a Republican governor. Since there is a Democrat governor now, he wanted the govenor to be able to appoint an interim senator without an immediate special election. This kind of crazy political manipulation of law has, unfortunately, become the norm instead of the exception.
I think you mean January 19, 2010, not 2009.
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