I am sure he got the message
But Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat who represents one of the most Democratic and pro-Obama districts in the country, also reports deep resistance among his constituents.
In a Thursday interview with Michel Martin, host of NPR’s Tell Me More, Cummings said he's encountered near-universal opposition in his Baltimore-based district a place that delivered landslide victories to Obama both in 2008 and in 2012.
“We are in a situation where, first of all, 95 probably 97 percent of everybody who calls my office and emails my office and this, by the way, I come from a district which was about 85 percent for President Obama [is] saying ‘no.’ And walking in here today to my office, I had a nurse ... at Johns Hopkins who's been there for 17 years, begged me not to vote for this bill.
He is going to ask them for a resolution to back up his negotiating posture, trust me on that one.