Health care is proceeding at a snail’s pace in the Senate, but there is some movement; the Senate has begun voting on amendments. The Senators will spend the weekend in Washington D.C. continuing to debate and vote on amendments. An amendment by Sen. Blanche Lincoln, R-Ark., would hit the wallets of health care executives.

The Hill reports:

Under current law, companies can claim up to $1 million per executive in annual write-offs. The Lincoln proposal would reduce the write-off to $400,000, the same annual salary as the president draws. According to Lincoln, the bill would also save $651 million in revenue over the next 10 years.

The Christian Science Monitor asks how many more weeks there will be left in the Senate debate. For those hoping on a vote on the actual bill soon, they may be disappointed. “The whole thing is going to take even longer than most people thought,” the Christian Science Monitor writes.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., spoke on the Senate floor today talking about “why the health reform bill is so important to all Americans and, in particular, the people of my home state of New Mexico.”

On the electoral front, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is still in trouble. His favorability ratings are at an anemic 38 percent in his home state of Nevada. Incumbents with favorability ratings of below fifty percent are generally considered to be in trouble.

The New York Daily News sees signs that former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani might be done with elected office. He’s accepting a job as a security consultant for the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., admitted that he wanted to be Secretary of State. Governor Bill Richardson was reportedly a candidate for that position as well, but ultimately President Barack Obama chose Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State.

Political analyst Nathan Gonzales notes there are some young candidates running for Senate. If they do win, however, they won’t be the first.

Nine current Senators were elected before the age of 40 and all of them had previous experience in elected office.

Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) all served in the House. Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) held statewide office, and Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) served in the state Legislature.

Bingaman was Attorney General before becoming a Senator.

And in polling news, a narrow plurality of those polled by Gallup think that the goals in Aghanistan will be met by the United States. However, 51 percent of those polled agree with President Barack Obama’s new policy to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, while 40 percent opposed it.