{"id":452080,"date":"2010-03-20T15:44:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T19:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74084"},"modified":"2010-03-20T15:44:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T19:44:47","slug":"carney-to-vote-yes-whip-count-204-yes-205-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/452080","title":{"rendered":"Carney to Vote Yes: Whip Count 204 Yes, 205 No"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_73928\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/204v1_LeoReynolds-Flickr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73928\" title=\"204v1_LeoReynolds-Flickr\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/204v1_LeoReynolds-Flickr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: Leo Reynolds via Flickr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A major development: Chris Carney (D-PA) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/politicojosh\/status\/10786366291\">will vote yes<\/a> on the health care bill.  Carney was sort of part of the Stupak bloc,  but wasn\u2019t on the list of Democrats who co-sponsored Bart Stupak\u2019s  ultimately failed amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Carney <a href=\"http:\/\/prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/20\/democrats-edge-closer-to-216-votes\/\">was  present<\/a> at a meeting between Speaker Pelosi and three anti-choice  Democrats (Carney, Kathy Dahlkemper and Steve Driehaus).  The fact that  he came out of this and decided to vote Yes bodes well for the  Democratic leadership.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: Carney\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/carneys-health-care-statement\/\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/livepulse\/0310\/Costa_a_yes.html\">Jim Costa<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/cuellar-press-release\/\">Henry  Cuellar<\/a> decided to lend their support to the bill, but I already  had them in the count as Yes votes (Cuellar actually announced  yesterday, I believe).<\/p>\n<p>Seeing fellow Californian Costa come home, and with Dennis Cardoza\u2019s  main complaint, the deem and pass strategy, rendered moot by the House  leadership going away from that path, I think we can confidently put  Cardoza down as a Yes, too.<\/p>\n<p>The new count is 204 Yes, 205 No, with now 12 undecided and 10  assumed in the Stupak bloc.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers:<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74084&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_74084\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo: Leo Reynolds via Flickr A major development: Chris Carney (D-PA) will vote yes on the health care bill. Carney was sort of part of the Stupak bloc, but wasn\u2019t on the list of Democrats who co-sponsored Bart Stupak\u2019s ultimately failed amendment. Carney was present at a meeting between Speaker Pelosi and three anti-choice Democrats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452080","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\/4406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}