So I was thinking tomorrow was the day to take off from work and spend the day on the phones to these Senators - esp the few Dems who might vote against this nightmare.....
Am I too early on this?
(can’t take but so many day off you know...)
Freedom'sWorthIt wrote:
So I was thinking tomorrow was the day to take off from work and spend the day on the phones to these Senators - esp the few Dems who might vote against this nightmare.....
Am I too early on this?
(can’t take but so many day off you know...)
It is up to you. If I were calling tomorrow, I would be asking for no vote on cloture on any amendment until 72 hours after the amendment has been made available online. No vote on cloture for a final vote on a bill until 72 hours after the final version of the bill is published online. Those would be worthwhile calls to make, and keep track of who commits to that and who just takes down your comment.
But the vote in committee tomorrow is on a conceptual outline of a bill that is yet to be written. And when this bill is actually written (some staffers somewhere could already be working on it, but it probably won’t be done for a few more days), it won’t be the actual bill that goes to the floor. It will be combined with the bill from the HELP committee. That work will be done by Reid, Baucus, and probably Rahm Emanual, along with some Senate staffers. That will generate the “final health care bill” which will be submitted as an amendment to H.R.1586. If I had to guess, we are a week or more away from the final bill.
The only way this could be expedited from that is if Reid has staffers already working on the legislative language of only the parts of the Finance Committee bill that he plans to put into the final mix. If they are doing that, they could have the final, merged bill much quicker. I think we need to keep our eyes on Reid, Durbin, Baucus Rham and any other administration officials who might get involved with this.
I guess it wouldn’t hurt to make some calls, but I don’t know if it’s time to take off work for it yet. It’s your call.
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