{"id":381495,"date":"2010-03-02T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T16:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2010\/03\/02\/nine-democrats-for-pelosi-to-target-in-the-house-health-vote\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T16:33:52","slug":"nine-democrats-for-pelosi-to-target-in-the-house-health-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/381495","title":{"rendered":"Nine Democrats for Pelosi to Target in the House Health Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post by WSJ’s Peter Landers also is appearing on the Washington Wire blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"capitol\"The fate of the Democrats\u0092 health bill is likely to come down to the House, and the vote there hinges on wavering Democrats. The Associated Press surveyed all 39 Democrats who voted against the version of the health overhaul approved by the House<\/a> on Nov. 7 and found nine who said they would consider switching to yes. <\/p>\n

If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is to achieve a majority, she\u0092ll probably need some of those nine, because some of those who voted yes last time \u0096- including Rep. Bart Stupak<\/a> of Michigan \u0096- have said they\u0092re planning to vote no this time. The vote in November was 220-215.<\/p>\n

Three of the nine \u0096- Reps. Brian Baird of Washington and Bart Gordon and John Tanner of Tennessee \u0096- are retiring and don\u0092t need to worry as much about defending their vote before constituents, notes the AP. <\/p>\n

Another five \u0096- Reps. Suzanne Kosmas of Florida, Frank Kratovil of Maryland, Scott Murphy of New York, Glenn Nye of Virgnia and Michael McMahon of New York \u0096- are first-termers and perhaps more susceptible to arm-twisting by the Democratic House leadership. The ninth is Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia.<\/p>\n

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This post by WSJ’s Peter Landers also is appearing on the Washington Wire blog. The fate of the Democrats\u0092 health bill is likely to come down to the House, and the vote there hinges on wavering Democrats. The Associated Press surveyed all 39 Democrats who voted against the version of the health overhaul approved by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}