This Is It - Demand a NO Vote on Pro-Abortion Health Care
The stage is set for an up-or-down-vote later today in the House on the pro-abortion Senate health care bill. This is not over. You can still make a difference. We need to urge those undecided members to vote NO on a government-run, pro-abortion package that is wrong for America.
Thanks to your involvement, we realized an important victory yesterday when the Rules Committee decided not to use the legislative trick called "deem and pass" to ram this through. Now, a direct vote on the bill itself will occur - in a matter of hours - and this is the time to stand with us in opposition by signing our petition and urging undecided members to vote NO.
After a marathon session in the House Rules Committee, the agenda is set for important votes later today. The House will vote directly on the pro-abortion Senate bill requiring each member of Congress to cast a vote either in support or opposition to the measure. There will also be a separate vote on the Reconciliation bill - a 'fix-it' measure - designed to revise the original Senate bill. If Reconciliation passes, the Senate will take up the 'fix-it' package next week.
What's critical is this: The vote on the pro-abortion Senate bill itself is the vote to focus on right now. If it passes with 216 votes, this is the measure President Obama will sign into law.
Don't be confused about what you may hear out of Washington - the Senate bill that will face an up-or-down vote remains fundamentally flawed and would result in a tremendous intrusion by the federal government into one-sixth of our economy. Additionally, the Senate bill contains historic levels of federal funding for abortion, rejecting a longstanding ban on such funding.
The American people - and hundreds of thousands of our supporters - repeatedly have spoken out against this bill and urged the the House to reject it.
There is still time to make a difference. There's still time to stop this troubling measure. But we have to act now. The vote will ultimately come down to those 'undecided' House members and now is the time to join with us - urge them to vote NO - on the pro-abortion Senate bill.
Ironically, the deciding votes are likely to be cast by pro-life Democrats. The question is whether or not they will stand up for the pro-life principles that they profess to believe in, or will too many of them bend to the enormous pressure being imposed on them and support this troubling package?
Please act now and sign on to our petition rejecting this flawed measure.
And, if your Member is listed below, make one last call to them at (202) 224-3121 to urge them to vote NO on this pro-abortion health care package. We'll post additional details following the vote and bring you analysis and reaction.
Jason Altmire (PA)
Brian Baird (WA)
Melissa Bean (IL)
Shelley Berkley (NV)
Sanford Bishop (GA)
Tim Bishop (NY)
Michael Capuano (MA)
Dennis Cardoza (CA)
Jim Cooper (TN)
Jim Costa (CA)
Henry Cuellar (TX)
Kathy Dahlkemper (PA)
Lincoln Davis (TN)
Peter DeFazio (OR)
Brad Ellsworth (IN)
Bob Etheridge (NC)
Bill Foster (IL)
Marcia Fudge (OH)
Bart Gordon (TN)
John Hall (NY)
Debbie Halvorson (IL)
Paul Kanjorski (PA)
Marcy Kaptur (OH)
Mary Jo Kilroy (OH)
Ron Kind (WI)
Ron Klein (FL)
Suzanne Kosmas (FL)
Stephen Lynch (MA)
Jerry McNerney (CA)
Harry Mitchell (AZ)
Alan Mollohan (WV)
Chris Murphy (CT)
Scott Murphy (NY)
Richard Neal (MA)
Glenn Nye (VA)
Solomon Ortiz (TX)
Bill Owens (NY)
Tom Periello (VA)
Earl Pomeroy (ND)
Ciro Rodriguez (TX)
Bobby Rush (IL)
John Salazar (CO)
Loretta Sanchez (CA)
Kurt Schrader (OR)
Zack Space (OH)
Adam Smith (WA)
John Tanner (TN)
Dina Titus (NV)
Paul Tonko (NY)