Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) revealed this afternoon during a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee that she will vote in support of the health care overhaul bill currently being debated. After months of attempting to solicit bipartisan support, this is a huge victory for Democrats and President Obama, who has personally appealed to the Republican Senator in recent weeks. Could this defection lead to more breaks in the iron curtain of Republican opposition to health care reform in Congress? Not likely… but we can certainly hope.
You can read more about it here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33290417/ns/politics-health_care_reform/
