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The latest word out of the Hill after the talks broke down so famously between Chairman Waxman and the Blue Dogs, is that the tentative agreements are back on, and that the mark-ups of H.R. 3200, the health care bill, will resume on Monday. When that happens, I’ll be posting a mark-up liveblogging diary right here on Campaign Silo for you all to participate in.
However, we’re not in the clear yet. As long as we have Democratic leaders like Rep. Hoyer hinting that the members of the House of Representatives might leave for their vacation before dealing with health care reform, we’ve got to keep up the pressure by telling Congress that they must deal with the passage of health care reform first before going on vacation. Here’s the quote from Rep. Hoyer below:
Even with Waxman’s hope for a Monday resurrection of the markup, Hoyer acknowledged that the House is unlikely to meet its deadline of passing a bill by Friday. He said the House session may extend to Saturday or even the first two days of the next week.
And he held open the possibility that the House may break for its summer recess without passing a bill.
It’s why we have to keep up the pressure on Congress to pass health care reform first instead of going off on their vacation in August. We were able to sign up over 32,274 Americans in telling Congress not to go on their vacation before dealing with health care reform, and delivered that petition today to Rep. Clyburn, the Majority Whip of the House of Representatives.
We’re going to keep on fighting for the passage of health care reform with a strong, robust public option, the national insurance exchange, and subsidies for the middle class to afford health care. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity for health care reform, and can you please help us raise $32,274 to continue this fight with more resources and get more people involved? Every single dollar helps in this fight in getting real health care reform.
Remember, the murder-by-spreadsheet industry and their lobbyists are spending over $1.4 million a day just to keep health care reform from happening because they’re scared of the public option. You know what? They WILL be afraid of the public option because we’re going to win.
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Hoyer is the House’s Reid. All the other leaders are leaders – Hoyer ain’t quite the same cut of cloth.
Glad the mark-ups are up and running – Waxman must have got them to fold.
We need to start getting ready for a long August but if we can get this bill out of the house with the right stuff in it. Then we can work the FDL Letter to the Editor Tool and the District-by-District Benefits released by the E&C Committee to consolidate support because we will be speaking of ‘the benefit to them’ and the Editors will be more likely to run the story.
I have placed this information over on mcjoan’s, nyceve’s, and your diaries on KOS.
We are going to win this war through passion, dedication, facts, and relentlessness.
You’re right about us winning this war through passion, dedication, facts, and UTTER relentlessness! I’m not going to give up on this, and neither should anyone reading this :-)
relentless is the word. You can bet your a** if it were their healthcare on the line they would stay until the job was done. How many Americans get one vacation a year let alone two or three. I couldn’t care less if these clowns get a vacation. They sure as hell don’t deserve one IMO.
By the way –Have any of you seen the final bill?
If there’s only a “possibility” the House leaves without a bill, then I feel good…the media tends to overstate things for dramatic effect…especially since they added that part after saying they were considering holding the House open thru Saturday or early next week.
Anyone know why the House is due to leave on July 31st and the Senate on Aug 7?
Hey, maybe we can get a vote on Anthony Weiner’s amendment to substitute the text of HR676 for HR3200!
What about sending a “get this done” letter to dems on waxman’s committee, hoyer, and pelosi? It may help to know we’re paying attention to the detail.
That is not a quote. That is the Hill’s characterization of what Hoyer said.
Rule one of the new political coverage. When either Politico or The Hill paraphrase someone, hold onto your wallet because the odds are that is not really what he said at all. In exactly what words did Hoyer “hold open the possibility”. Or did he just not deny it which in the Politico/Hill word is just as good.
I have been looking for some direct quote from Hoyer and all I am getting is second hand accounts of what his remarks might have meant. But actual words I find on record only indicate Hoyer threatening to delay the recess by a few days and not in fact pushing to move action to September. I would be happy to eat my words if someone could actually provide Steny’s, but an equally plausible argument is that Pelosi and Hoyer are playing good cop/bad cop with Pelosi saying she has the votes for a July 31 deadline and Steny telling reluctant members that they will extend the session if necessary.
And yes I know that Hoyer is at heart a corporatist, but at least he deserves to be hanged with his own words.