30 Democratic senators (really, 29 Democrats and one independent who caucuses with them, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders) joined together on Thursday to send a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in which they ask him “for your leadership on ensuring that the merged health reform bill contains a public insurance option.”
“We recognize that the two Committees with jurisdiction over health reform – the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee – have taken two very different approaches with respect to this issue,” the letter says. “However, a strong public option has resounding support among Senate Democrats – every Democrat on HELP, three quarters of those on Finance, and what we believe is a majority of the caucus.”
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, was responsible for circulating the letter, according to his office. Among the signatories were Sens. John Kerry, Jay Rockefeller, Patrick Leahy, Arlen Specter, Russ Feingold, Debbie Stabenow, Barbara Boxer and Bob Casey, Jr.
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