For liberals, issue number one right now is making sure a public insurance option gets in the Senate bill. It is not in this Finance Committee measure.
[...] Snowe made clear several times on Tuesday, that she will not support any parliamentary effort to move forward, unless there is a full CBO budget review, and a lot of transparency.
"The credibility of the process will dictate the credibility of the outcome," said Snowe.
In other words, if you try to jam this thing through the Senate without time for Republicans to offer amendments and to look through the bill, you might have problems.
That tells me that we will be lucky to have a final vote on health care reform in the Senate by Veterans Day, let alone Thanksgiving.
SOURCE: Jamie Dupree
