The vote on Speaker Pelosi’s 2,000-page, $1 trillion-plus plan for government-run health care \u2013 still scheduled for later today \u2013 is coming down to the wire.\u00a0 Several Members of Congress are saying and\u00a0the media is reporting\u00a0that the Speaker still doesn\u2019t have the necessary 218 votes for passage \u2013 despite her working through the night to strike backroom deals with so-called moderate Democrats.<\/p>\n
The vote, whether it happens tonight or is delayed for a day or two<\/a>, is going to be close.\u00a0 As many as 23 House Democrats have vowed to join with all Republicans to vote against the bill.\u00a0 There are several Democrats still on the fence.<\/p>\n The Hill<\/em> has this updated whip count<\/a> of key Dems and their positions on the bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n The American people must keep the pressure on their Representatives in Congress to vote “No” on the Pelosi-Obama government-run health care scheme.\u00a0 We can defeat it!<\/p>\n CFIF staff is heading down to the U.S. Capitol now to join with thousands of Americans to rally against the bill.\u00a0 If you live in the Washington, D.C.-area, please join us at the event, the details of which can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Keep calling, writing and faxing your Representatives in opposition to the House bill.\u00a0 Ask your neighbors, friends and family members to do the same.\u00a0 We are winning.\u00a0 We can win.\u00a0 And, we will win if we all do our part to turn up the heat in opposition to government-run health care.<\/p>\n The vote on Speaker Pelosi’s 2,000-page, $1 trillion-plus plan for government-run health care \u2013 still scheduled for later today \u2013 is coming down to the wire.\u00a0 Several Members of Congress are saying and\u00a0the media is reporting\u00a0that the Speaker still doesn\u2019t have the necessary 218 votes for passage \u2013 despite her working through the night to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n