Pelosi Vows Passage of Health-Care Overhaul-'It Will Win': Confidence Grows as Dems Plan to Resume..

[Pirate Smile]

Source: Washington Post

Defying skeptics in her party, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed Sunday to overcome lingering obstacles and pass health-care reform in the House, restoring momentum to President Obama's top domestic priority and order to her own unruly Democratic caucus.
"When I take this bill to the floor, it will win," Pelosi (Calif.) said on CNN's "State of the Union." "This will happen."

The speaker, who has struggled to overcome a series of recent setbacks, raised the stakes by planning to restart talks Monday among bickering Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee, one of three House panels with jurisdiction over health care and where the bill stalled last week. Democratic leaders are newly confident that these differences can be resolved, possibly in time to bring a House bill to the floor before lawmakers depart Friday for the August recess, although Pelosi did not commit to a timetable.

The chaos underscores the difficulty of transforming a major sector of the U.S. economy in a single piece of legislation, and also the perils of rushing Obama's first-term priorities through Congress before concerns about the 2010 midterm elections take hold. "What we don't want is for the process to bog down here," senior White House adviser David Axelrod said on the same CNN program. "We want to keep moving forward, and I believe we will."

Although the Senate will not vote on its plan until after Labor Day, a Senate Finance Committee deal this week would reassure several dozen anxious House Democrats who are wary of the more liberal course their leaders have taken on health care. Feeling burned by a tough vote on climate-change legislation that is languishing in the Senate, these House Democrats sparked an uprising last week that Pelosi is struggling to contain.



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[aquart]

1. I have no enthusiasm.

This will do for healthcare what the idiot Republicans did for the senior drug benefit.

[foginthemorn]

5. me either at this point. I am not into the --"anything goes just

to pass a health insurance bill" mentality!!

[Hekate]

2. Go get'em Nancy. Kick ass. nt

[budkin]

3. Too bad it has no chance in the Senate

[backscatter712]

4. If markup's on in E&C, that means Waxman already knows it'll pass.

Don't count your chickens quite yet, but Waxman knows how to count votes, and he knows how to deliver spankings to obstructionist Blue Dogs like Ross. Seeing that markup's on, I'd say that Waxman's pretty confident that he's not going to see any more shenanigans in the committee.

Definitely very good news. After it gets through E&C, it goes to the Rules Commitee, where the versions of HR 3200 from the three committees get merged together into one bill, then it goes to the House floor.

Time to push our Congresscritters to stay in Washington for an extra few days and get that bill passed!

[corpseratemedia]

6. If they cut or gut medicare or medicaid, then it'll hurt like medicare part D does

I heard this morning on my local news a "breaking" story: republicans say that the health-care bill won't pass without them.

If this is the narrative that both parties are going to along with, we will be getting screwed.


Please I hope I'm wrong, but too many naftas, and wars for profit, and welfare reforms and "help" with prescriptions and repiglican enabling over the last 2 decades have made me ...hopeless.

[The Stranger]

7. What in the fuck is she waiting for? She huffs and she puffs,

but she just can't seem to blow the house down.