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We Four Kings of Capitol Hill

Posted by Cindy

Dec. 28, 2009 11:14 a.m. • 1 comment

Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., talks with reporters.

Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) — Last month, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a strong defender of the public option for health care, warned: “I don’t want four Democratic senators dictating to the other 56 of us and to the country, when the public option has this much support, that it is not going to be in it.”

But in the end, those senators won the battle over the public option, as well as several other provisions in the health care bill.

They have emerged as the powerhouses of the Senate.

Before 2009, most Americans never heard of Sens. Ben Nelson, Max Baucus or Kent Conrad. More have heard of the Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman as a result of his Democratic vice presidential bid in 2000.

Yet now they are the movers and shakers in the Senate.

Agree or disagree.

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