Lost amid yesterday's media shuffle about Sonia Sotomayor's wisdom and the House's health care reform bill, the Senate health committee passed its own version of reform.

The strict party line vote drew no Republican support, highlighting again how divided lawmakers stand over the various proposals floating around Capitol Hill.

So what does the Senate bill propose? Well, while the Senators want to expand coverage further than their counterparts in House, they have even less of an idea of how to pay for it, offering no funding proposals whatsoever. For now.

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