The revised stimulus package passed a major milesone on Monday, setting up a final vote by the Senate on Tuesday.
Under those strange, strange Senate rules 60 votes is required for cloture, otherwise a filibuster can be used to block final passage of the bill.
GOP Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter all broke ranks with the rest of the GOP and supported the revised stimulus package. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), still battling his brain tumor, still came in for the vote, making the final vote 61-36.
Final vote is scheduled for tomorrow. Even once the bill passes the Senate, however, it will have to be reconciled with the differing bill passed last week by the House of Representatives.
Despite this, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid felt they could complete the bill by Friday and said he was prepared to hold the Senate in session into the Presidents Day holiday weekend if necessary.
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