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  1. Roll Call: Baucus nominated girlfriend for U.S. Attorney -- http://is.gd/5cS3Z
  2. Senate is adjourned until 10 tomorrow. There will be votes sometime after 1.
  3. Here’s a list of nominees unanimously confirmed by the Senate last night: http://is.gd/5cGtL.
  4. No more roll call votes tonight. (via @StewSays)
  5. Sherrod Brown: "The president needs to weigh in" to settle public option issue. (via @JeffreyYoung_HC)
  6. Hatch motion to commit re: removing $120B in Medicare Advantage cuts falls, 41-57. 60 needed for passage.
  7. Stabenow amd affirming that health bill won't reduce or eliminate Medicare Advantage benefits passes, 97-1.
  8. Thune health amd to strike CLASS Act from bill falls, 51-47. 60 needed for passage. http://is.gd/5czRD
  9. Whitehouse Sense of Senate amd re: protecting Social Security / Class Act program funds passes, 98-0. http://is.gd/5cyTA
  10. Lincoln takes aim at insurance execs' pocketbooks in amendment http://bit.ly/4WpBgH (via @MPOTheHill)
  11. Brown, Dodd, Mikulski & Franken join Coburn health amd requiring members to enroll in public option. http://is.gd/5cwu6
  12. Reid says there will likely be 2 votes on Saturday afternoon. Members will be in session Sunday as well.
  13. 4 votes (3 amd / 1 motion) set to start at 3:30. 2 on fiscal responsibility and 2 on Medicare Advantage.
  14. "I've been very clear. I don't support a public option" - Sen Blanche Lincoln (via @EvanMGlass)
  15. ranking of Senate seats most likely to flip, based solely on current polling: http://tinyurl.com/ykslgrh (via @ppppolls)
  16. Ethics Committee issuing subpoenas re: Ensign affair. http://is.gd/5ctG0
  17. PA-SEN: Rep. Barney Frank to Endorse Sestak for Senate http://bit.ly/8ox3ln (via @cqpolitics)
  18. Durbin indicates Dems are inching closer to compromise agreements on abortion, public option. http://is.gd/5cqk5
  19. Brown allowed to cosponsor public option amendment after all http://bit.ly/545ovB (via @MPOTheHill)
  20. FL-SEN: LeMieux launching leadership political action committee. http://is.gd/5clLw