Sherrod Brown, Chuck Schumer, and Michael Bennet all took a strong stand for the public option and health care reform yesterday, expressing confidence that health care reform -- with the opt-out public option intact -- will pass the Senate: Transcript: SHERROD BROWN: There are two weeks, three weeks, whatever, of debate. Senator Lieberman, everybody has a chance to offer amendments. I'm going to offer amendments on some pharmaceutical issues, because I think the bill could be strengthened there. I know that my colleagues are going to do the same on some other -- that and some other issues. So they will have their chance to do this. And I think, in the end, 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's not going to be in it. And I echo what Michael said, is that people want every option. If we're going to -- if we're telling people you have to buy insurance, we shouldn't tell them they
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