UPDATE: Health care bill clears Senate hurdle

Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 8:36 p.m. CST; updated 8:45 p.m. CST, Saturday, November 21, 2009

WASHINGTON — Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.

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