back a bill

Not everyone in the financial services industry backs the bill.

Then, weeks later it reversed course again and backed the bill.

Stevens backed the bill and forced it through the House.

Several other bills backed by Republicans are working their way through committees.

The vote in the Senate, which backed the bill by just six votes, came after 14 hours of at times heated debate.

Wall Street backed the bill, as did insurance companies.

It went much further than the bill backed by the Democratic majority that is still before the Senate.

Fifty-two senators backed the bill, but that was eight too few to cut off debate.

Not a single Republican backed the bill that would give millions free care in hospitals and expensive pills.

Suddenly, legislators who had originally backed the bill began withdrawing their support.