Health care bill clears first Senate hurdle on party-line vote.

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats, without a vote to spare, pushed forward a bill to overhaul the U.S. health care system, but a divisive debate still lies ahead and there is no assurance the measure - as written - will win approval in the upper chamber of the Congress.

Filed under: News , Politics , President Obama , Health Care Debate With a razor-thin victory over Senate Republicans last night in a historic vote to advance the debate on health care reform, Senate Democrats handed President Barack Obama one of his largest prizes since winning the presidency. Reaching the needed 60 votes along a party-line vote, without a single one to spare, the Senate, in a ...

On a party line vote, sweeping health care legislation cleared its first major hurdle in the U.S. Senate Saturday night. Montana's senators both supported the measure, while Wyoming's senators did not.

"Tonight 60 United States Senators, on a party-line vote, chose to ignore the will of the American people. Driven by their big-government ideology, these Senators have put partisanship ahead of the public interest.

Sweeping health care legislation has cleared its first hurdle in the Senate on a party-line vote. Sen. Blanche Lincoln's "yes" vote gave the Democrats the 60 votes they needed.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sweeping health care legislation has cleared its first hurdle in the Senate on a party-line vote. The 60-39 vote clears the way for a historic debate after Thanksgiving on the legislation.

Sweeping health care legislation has cleared its first hurdle in the Senate on a party-line vote.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans.

Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats united to bring a sweeping health-care plan to the U.S. Senate floor in a party-line vote that kept Republicans from blocking debate on President Barack Obama’s top domestic initiative.