Send a copy of this article (a paper copy, or a link) to Rep. Bart Stupak, Rep. Joseph Cao, and the Potential Flip Vote of your choice. If the vote on the final (post-reconciliation bill) goes exactly as it did last time in the House, but with just three people flipping from YES to NO, THIS BILL WILL FAIL.
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Again: there were 42 members of the House who voted both in favor of the Stupak amendment to bar taxpayer funding for abortions and in favor of the main bill. Clearly, Speaker Nancy Pelosi couldn't have won passage of health care legislation had the House not adopted pro-life language.
The names below are all of those who voted in favor of both measures, with an asterisk next to those who were considered undecided on the morning of the vote. To be clear, many of these members would have supported the health care bill no matter what. However, given the 220-215 vote margin on the House vote, what it means is that when the pro-life language is stripped from the bill during negotiations with the Senate, if Pelosi loses the support of any three of these people below as a result -- without picking up anybody else's support -- the bill cannot pass the House.
Joe Baca
Marion Berry*
Sanford Bishop
Dennis Cardoza*
Chris Carney*
Jim Cooper*
Jim Costa*
Joseph Cao*
Jerry Costello
Henry Cuellar*
Kathy Dahlkemper
Joe Donnelly*
Mike Doyle
Steve Driehaus*
Brad Ellsworth*
Bob Etheridge*
Baron Hill
Paul Kanjorski*
Marcy Kaptur*
Dale Kildee
Jim Langevin
Daniel Lipinski
Stephen Lynch
Michael Michaud*
Alan Mollohan
John Murtha
Richard Neal
James Oberstar
David Obey
Solomon Ortiz
Tom Perriello*
Earl Pomeroy
Nick Rahall
Silvestre Reyes
Ciro Rodriguez*
Tim Ryan
John Salazar
Vic Synder
Zack Space*
John Spratt
Bart Stupak*
Charles Wilson