{"id":2963,"date":"2009-11-06T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T21:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2009-11-06T16:19:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T21:19:05","slug":"steny-hoyer-we-dont-have-the-votes-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/steny-hoyer-we-dont-have-the-votes-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Steny Hoyer: We Don’t Have the Votes… Yet."},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n

House Democrats acknowledged they don’t yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system, and signaled they may push back the vote until Sunday or early next week.<\/p>\n

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters in a conference call Friday that the make-or-break vote on President Barack Obama’s push to make health coverage part of the social safety net could face delay. Democrats were originally hoping to pass the bill on Saturday-and officially, that’s still the plan.<\/p>\n

But Democrats have yet to resolve a intraparty disputes over abortion funding and illegal immigrants’ access to medical coverage. They cleared one hurdle Friday when liberals supporting a government-run Medicare-for-all system withdrew their demand for a floor vote.<\/p>\n

Hoyer sought to pin the blame for any possible slippage on delaying tactics expected from Republicans, who unanimously oppose the health care remake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heh, of course they’re trying to pin the blame on Republicans, it can’t possibly be because of divisions in their own caucus… I mean it’s not like the Democrats have a 256 seat majority in the House or anything… oh, right, yeah, um – never mind.<\/p>\n

Dan Perrin has the Whip list here<\/a>… If you’re in any of their districts, call, fax, e-mail tell them to just say no to Obama\/Pelosi care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Associated Press: House Democrats acknowledged they don’t yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system, and signaled they may push back the vote until Sunday or early next week. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters in a conference call Friday that the make-or-break vote on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,43,7],"tags":[781,720,760],"class_list":{"0":"post-2963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy","7":"category-health-care","8":"category-politics","9":"tag-health-care-reform","10":"tag-house-of-representatives","11":"tag-steny-hoyer","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-LN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2514,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/steny-hoyer-idiot\/","url_meta":{"origin":2963,"position":0},"title":"Steny Hoyer: Idiot","author":"Jeff","date":"July 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"From CNSNews.com (emphasis mine): House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that job growth and economic recovery would not be harmed by a Democratic plan to increase\u00a0income taxes by $540 billion\u00a0to pay for their health-care\u00a0reform proposal\u00a0because the tax hikes would not affect small businesses. 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