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    After Months of Bitter Debate, Senate Passes Landmark Health Bill

    Republicans delayed the vote until the morning of Christmas Eve, but just after 7 o'clock today, the Senate passed its version of healthcare reform with a bare 60 votes and promptly recessed until next year.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Republicans delayed the vote until the morning of Christmas Eve, but just after 7 o'clock today, the Senate passed its version of healthcare reform with a bare 60 votes and promptly recessed until next year. President Obama called it a "historic… landmark," the most important piece of social legislation since the Social Security Act of the 1930's; Republicans called it "a lump of coal in the Christmas stocking of every American." Liberal Democrats are divided over the next step: to help reconcile the Senate and House versions or kill both bills and start over again. Republicans say the fight is not over for them, either. We look at what's next.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Karen Radziner

      Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?

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      Katie Cooper

      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      Adriel Bettelheim

      White House Correspondent, CQPolitics.com

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      Darcy Burner

      Executive Director, American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation

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      Jonathan Chait

      political columnist for New York Magazine

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    The full episode

    1 of 2
    The Last Battle Is Over, Let the Next One Begin
    1. 0:00After Months of Bitter Debate, Senate Passes Landmark Health BillYou’re reading this
    2. 37:57Cheap Clothes and Third World Labor
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