Reid Tees Up Vote; GOP Drops Bill-Reading Plan

• By Emily Pierce
• Roll Call Staff
• Nov. 19, 2009, 4:54 p.m.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday afternoon set the procedural wheels in motion for a crucial vote on a major health care reform bill Saturday night at 8 p.m. and scored a coup by apparently persuading Republicans to abandon their plans to have the entire 2,074-page bill read aloud on the Senate floor.