Interesting: Feinstein Joins List of Senators Wanting A Public Option
Sam Stein reports an interesting development. After 9 Democratic senators banded together for a public option push , Diane Feinstein has become the 10th : Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) became the 10th Senator to sign on to a new effort by Democrats to press Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to pass a public option for insurance coverage using reconciliation, her office confirmed to the Huffington Post on Wednesday. The California Democrat joins a list of mostly progressive members to offer her late-stage support for the government run plan. In a letter to Reid on Tuesday a quartet of Democrats penned urged Reid to pass the proposal through parliamentary procedures that allow a simple up-or-down vote. And Stein notes, Feinstein hasn't been out in public urging that we get a public option before. This is a startling surprise of pleasant indeed: In putting her name among the signatories Feinstein expands the pool of senators pushing for a public plan beyond the progressiv