{"id":485,"date":"2009-09-08T18:17:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T22:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2009-09-08T18:17:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T22:17:15","slug":"23-house-democrats-vow-no-vote-on-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/485\/23-house-democrats-vow-no-vote-on-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"23 House Democrats Vow &#8220;No&#8221; Vote on ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the August recess, at least 23 House Democrats pledged opposition to the health care reform bill being pushed by\u00a0House Leadership, including\u00a0Nancy Pelosi.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If 16 more Dems join the 23 already opposed to the legislation &#8212; assuming all Republican\u00a0remain united against the plan\u00a0&#8212; Pelosi won&#8217;t have enough votes to pass it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bill&#8217;s price tag and opposition to the government-run public option are among the reasons moderate Democrats have\u00a0indicated they will\u00a0vote &#8220;No.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But as many as 100 members of\u00a0Pelosi&#8217;s caucus have suggested they\u00a0will not for for a bill that <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> include the so-called &#8220;public option.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below is the list of 23 House Dems opposed to the legislation as compiled by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/57565-already-23-dems-have-said-they-will-vote-no-on-reform\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Adler (N.J.)<br \/>\nJason Altmire\u00a0 (Pa.)<br \/>\nJohn Barrow\u00a0 (Ga.)<br \/>\nDan Boren (Okla.)<br \/>\nRick Boucher\u00a0 (Va.)<br \/>\nAllen Boyd (Fla.)<br \/>\nBobby Bright (Ala.)<br \/>\nTravis Childers (Miss.)<br \/>\nJim Costa (Calif.)<br \/>\nHenry Cuellar\u00a0 (Texas)<br \/>\nParker Griffith (Ala.)<br \/>\nFrank Kratovil (Md.)<br \/>\nBetsy Markey (Colo.)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Eric Massa<\/strong> (N.Y.) &#8212; <em>Doesn&#8217;t believe the public option in the current legislation is strong enough<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Jim Matheson (Utah)<br \/>\nCharlie Melancon (La.)<br \/>\nWalt Minnick (Idaho)<br \/>\nTom Perriello (Va.)<br \/>\nEarl Pomeroy (N.D.)<br \/>\nHeath Shuler (N.C.)<br \/>\nBart Stupak (Mich.)<br \/>\nJohn Tanner (Tenn.)<br \/>\nGene Taylor (Miss.)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the August recess, at least 23 House Democrats pledged opposition to the health care reform bill being pushed by\u00a0House Leadership, including\u00a0Nancy Pelosi.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If 16 more Dems join the 23 already opposed to the legislation &#8212; assuming all Republican\u00a0remain united against the plan\u00a0&#8212; Pelosi won&#8217;t have enough votes to pass it.\u00a0 The bill&#8217;s price tag and [&hellip;]<\/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-485","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\/485","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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}