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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Carragher who wrote (497785)	11/24/2003 2:43:28 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The vote was 70-29, 10 more than the 60 needed to end a filibuster led by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and joined by a pair of Democratic presidential hopefuls eager to share the spotlight. "Today is a momentous and historic day," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said moments before the test vote on legislation that has been gridlocked for years. The Tennessee Republican accused opponents of resorting to "procedural tricks to obstruct" passage of legislation making the most sweeping changes in Medicare since the program's creation in 1965.