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monica alba at the white house. mike, how did the senate manage to get this done so quickly? reporter: quickly is an understatement. this is called the world s greatest deliberative body. the process could have lasted well into early next week, potentially even past that x date, the default date, but there are two very powerful forces that can often speed things up in the senate. one is momentum. we saw that bigger than expected vote in the house on wednesday, more than 300 members there having ultimately voted for this bill when we all thought it would come down to the wire, and that s why we also saw the strong senate result last night. all but five senate democrats, 46 in total voting for this. only 17 republicans but enough to get over that 60 vote threshold. the other big motivating factor is jet volumes. a lot of senators did see the writing on the wall that this was likely to get into the president s hands sooner rather than later. they chose sooner so they could get home and

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