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Mark Pryor won’t filibuster a Senate health care bill

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Absent “crazy” circumstances, that is.

I apologize for the mistake in explaining the set-up of unprecedented filibustering of your own party’s bill – I used the word “minority” when I should have said “majority”. heh. If I was a print reporter, you never would have caught it.

Anyway, I had seen this in the Politico earlier today, so I was really happy to see Senator Pryor emerge from the tunnel:

Moderate Democrats did draw plenty of inspiration from Snowe – but instead of using her “yes” vote as a reason to embrace health care reform, fence-sitters hailed the caveats in her public statement Tuesday as a rationale for withholding their own judgment.

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson said his colleague from Maine wasn’t “forecasting what her future votes might be” when she cast the lone Republican vote for the Finance bill.

Likewise, Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor, whose own stance on health care remains an open question, cautioned, “I think she’s been careful to say that she supports it coming out of committee, but no guarantees on final passage because it’s going to change quite a bit between now and then.”

This reporting seemed pretty useless to me, but it sounded vaguely ominous. I thought it would be a good idea ask point blank: would he support a filibuster of a Senate Health Care Reform bill? Here’s his answer:

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Written by Mike Stark

October 15th, 2009 at 3:16 pm

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  1. [...] on this interview by Mike Stark, Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor apparently would not join a Republican filibuster of health care reform [...]

  2. Great interview. I have been calling all the centrist Dems myself asking them the same question. So far Lieberman is the biggest jackass. His staff is actually proud to say that he opposes the public option because “now is not the right time to spend so much money”.

    Question for you though. Where were you able to “catch” Pryor with your camera? Are you allowed to bring it into the Capitol building? I live in DC myself, but never tried taking the camera into the senate like that. Do you plan on getting Liebereman on film as well.

    Great work!

    ssm

    15 Oct 09 at 8:58 pm

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