Kyl: If motion gets 60 votes, '97 percent chance' health bill will pass

Senate GOP Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.) said Friday that if Saturday's motion to proceed passes, there is 97 percent chance the underlying healthcare reform bill will clear the upper chamber.

While the White House would embrace those odds, Kyl is attempting to put pressure on centrist Democrats.

In an interview with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News, Kyl said, "Any senator (who) votes for this bill has to know that there's a 97 percent chance that this bill ends up passing.

"For those senators on the other side who said, 'Well I don't like this part or that part of it,' unless they've got 60 votes to change it, their vote to proceed to the vote to this bill is tantamount to a vote for the bill because they're not going to change it."

Sens. Mary Landreiu (D-La.) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) have not committed to voting for the motion to proceed, but many on Capitol Hill believe they will.