{"id":454865,"date":"2010-03-21T13:41:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T17:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74307"},"modified":"2010-03-21T13:41:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T17:41:52","slug":"health-care-to-pass-%e2%80%93-stupak%e2%80%99s-backing-makes-it-official-update-not-quite-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/454865","title":{"rendered":"Health Care to Pass \u2013 Stupak\u2019s Backing Makes It Official UPDATE: Not Quite Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE<\/strong>: CNN says Stupak\u2019s not quite a Yes yet. I\u2019ll throw the numbers at the bottom including what we know about Brian Baird. Here\u2019s the press release<\/a> on that.<\/em><\/p>\n

Reuters is now confirming<\/a> that Bart Stupak will vote for the health care bill. That\u2019s the end of the line here. Stupak will bring along a number of his bloc with him, perhaps all of it. If everyone in my Stupak bloc votes for the bill, that would put Democrats at 215. And Brian Baird\u2019s office just confirmed<\/a> that he\u2019s voting for the bill. That\u2019s 216. And even if a couple more-Stupak-than-Stupak dead-enders hold out, some soft undecideds like Foster and Michaud are likely to come around.<\/p>\n

Health care reform will pass today. The Senate bill will become law of the land, and the reconciliation sidecar will go to the Senate, where Democrats have assurances that they can muster 50 votes to pass. Mitch McConnell claims<\/a> the Republicans will gum up the works during the reconciliation deliberations, including making dozens of amendments and also using points of order to try and get the Parliamentarian to knock out pieces of the bill. If they succeed in deleting any one line, then the reconciliation bill would have to go back to the House for one final vote and passage.<\/p>\n

We still don\u2019t know what Stupak got from his vote, whether an executive order or other assurances. This has been a clarifying experience in terms of the anti-choice movement within the Democratic Party. The pro-choice movement has a lot of soul-searching to do, and must steel themselves for future fights.<\/p>\n

Numbers after the jump…<\/p>\n

Tags: Bart Stupak<\/a>, choice<\/a>, Health care<\/a>, whip count<\/a><\/p>\n

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UPDATE: CNN says Stupak\u2019s not quite a Yes yet. I\u2019ll throw the numbers at the bottom including what we know about Brian Baird. Here\u2019s the press release on that. Reuters is now confirming that Bart Stupak will vote for the health care bill. That\u2019s the end of the line here. Stupak will bring along a […]<\/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-454865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454865","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=454865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}