Washington — Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio), a well-known liberal and single-payer booster, will be voting for the Senate health-care bill. Why it matters: Last year, he voted against the Democrats’ health-care bill in the House, a bill he then called “flawed,” since it lacked a public option. Now, calling himself the “deciding vote,” he says he’s willing to put aside his specific concerns to support the broader ideas outlined in the Senate bill. “I have to make a decision on the bill not as I’d like to see it, but as it is,” he said.

In a press conference today, Kucinich added that he continues to “have doubts” about the bill. However, he said, after four separate meetings with President Obama, he “decided to cast a vote in favor of the legislation . . . hopefully in the direction of comprehensive health-care reform.”