BY Advocate.com Editors
November 21 2009 7:00 PM ET
Senate majority leader Harry Reid has Democrats united behind him — for now.
Reid scored exactly the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster and move on to an official floor debate on landmark health care reform legislation.
Insiders suspect the show of unity might not last long.
"That was the easy part. Now it's only going to get tougher from here on out," Reid spokesman Jim Manley told The Huffington Post.
Several weeks of floor debate and amendments leading up to another crucial vote to end a second expected filibuster will follow.
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