ThinkProgress says at least 40 GOP lawmakers would be cut off financially if the RNC were ever to adopt the so called "purity test" that is being floated by a committee member:  
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There's been all this talk of needing 60 votes to pass health care reform in the Senate, but that isn't necessarily the case, as Byron Tau points out: 
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The NY Times has a helpful comparison of the House and Senate versions of health care reform here.
 
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Just now I sat down in a plush leather chair in room 1131 of the Longworth House Office Building -  to put your questions about the economy to Rep. Steve King, Republican of Iowa and well-known opponent of immigration, government regulation and just about everything folks in the Democratic Party hold dear. The irony was not lost on either of us that Al Gore once occupied the same office now held by a man who thinks global warming is bogus.
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He won't say whether he's got 60 votes to pass it, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled a Saturday vote to move the health care bill forward.

Republicans have been working to persuade members not to vote in favor of this procedural vote if they're planning to vote against health care. They warn their colleagues not to be in the position of having to say "I was for it before I was against it," echoing Sen. John Kerry's flip-flop on Iraq.  read more »

Indian Country has been waiting 17 years for Congress to update the Indian Health Care Improvement Act... and will have to wait a little longer.

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee was poised to take action on two of Indian Country's top priorities today: improving health care and support young people on reservations. But a full legislative schedule have pushed the votes into the future. No new date has been set.  read more »

Here's your chance to read the 2,074 page Senate health care bill. It's posted on Majority Leader Harry Reid's website here. Let me know how much of it you get through, or if you find something interesting or disturbing within.
 
And, if you don't have that much time on your hands, you can peruse the Congressional Budget Office's take on it (a mere 36 pages).  read more »

Nebraska moderate Democrat Ben Nelson's office just shot out a press release describing what a vote to proceed to debating the Senate health care bill is AND is not. Highlight: 
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The investigative arm of Congress is meeting opposition from some executive branch agencies, like the State, Justice and Defense Departments. Jordy Yager provides an interesting glimpse of the struggles facing the Government Accountability Office this morning: 
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Latinos are playing a big role in deciding what states get more representation in Congress next time around - and what states lose out. A new report by America’s Voice Education Fund shows that after the Census is complete next year, the demographic shift will be obvious.

The breakdown is expected to look something like this:

States gaining seats in the House:
Texas (+4)
Arizona (+2)
Florida (+1)
Georgia (+1)
Nevada (+1)
Oregon (+1)
South Carolina (+1)
Utah (+1)

States projected to lose House seats:
Ohio (-2)
Illinois (-1)
Iowa (-1)
Louisiana (-1)
Massachusetts (-1)  read more »