Greg Sargent is reporting that President Obama is now bringing in undecided members one-by-one to ask them what they would need to see in the health care reform bill in exchange for their support: According to a source familiar with the meeting, the President asked Murphy what he needed in the bill in order to [...]

Progressive Caucus whip Diane Watson’s office tells her constituents that she’s “willing to hold her nose and vote for a bill that had an individual mandate but no public option,” according to a FDL activist call report.

Circumventing conference can’t happen without the help of progressive members of the House. There are 83 members of the Progressive Caucus I believe.

It will present a whole host of interesting organizing opportunities that we haven’t seen before when rage in these communities allows us to put up reform challengers who will siphon off the strongest activist support over a health. Since those districts have no chance of ever going Republican, it would shake up the entire dynamic and pose the first real threat that many of these members have ever had.

Thomas Carper’s terrible new “alternative” to a public option is not winning over progressives in the House: The new version of the government-run plan, being crafted by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), fell flat with Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), the co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, who’s led members of Congress who’d previously spoken out against [...]

CQ Politics is reporting that the House has scheduled the vote on health care reform for this Saturday. It is highly unlikely that any amendments will be offered. It is incredibly unlikely that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would have scheduled a vote so soon if leadership was not completely confident in its ability [...]