120 hours to save Health care reform.

[Pab Sungenis]

That's all we've got left. 120 hours until the Senate Finance Committee is likely to vote for the biggest poison pill in the history of Conservademdom.

We only have 120 hours left to save health care reform from:

• Individual mandates with criminal penalties


• No public option


• No cost controls


• No employer mandate


• Certain defeat by the House

120 hours to stop this travesty from poisoning the final Senate bill.

120 hours to give the provisions of the Kennedy/HELP bill a fighting chance.

120 hours to stop the Republicans and conservative Democrats from either killing reform or making our system even worse.

Call. Fax. Go to their websites and E-Mail. Tell the Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee to kill the Baucus Bill in committee, and give us a fighting chance at actually passing real reform.

Jay Rockefeller
531 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC
20510
[phone]
[phone] Main Fax

Kent Conrad
530 Hart Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510-3403
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Jeff Bingaman
703 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
[phone]
TTY: [phone]

John Kerry
218 Russell Bldg.
Second Floor
Washington D.C. 20510
[phone] - Phone
[phone] - Fax

Blanche Lincoln
355 Dirksen Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510-0404
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Ron Wyden
202-224-5244

Chuck Schumer
313 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510
202-228-3027

Debbie Stabenow
133 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: [phone]

Maria Cantwell
511 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-3441
202-228-0514 - FAX
202-224-8273 - TDD

Bill Nelson
United States Senate
716 Senate Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Robert Menendez
528 Senate Hart Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
202.224.4744
202.228.2197 (fax)

Tom Carper
513 Hart Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

(The less-than-zero rating below is brought to you by Wellpoint, Cigna, Freepers, and those misguided Democrats who think that Change For The Worse is a good thing because it's still "change.")

[Tansy_Gold]

1. I put it on the + side

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. In order to qualify for reconciliation, the bill must first pass Finance.

If we run with HELP alone, we are stuck with 60 votes and can't vote as a budget item (51).

[Pab Sungenis]

3. We have 60 votes for cloture.

And if we don't, we'll have a couple fewer Democrats in the caucus next week.

Bring the Kennedy bill to the floor.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. We only have 58 Democrats

While Sen Sanders will stand with us, Holy Joe is an unknown.

[Pab Sungenis]

7. If Holy Joe wants to keep his chairmanship

he'll support cloture.

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. Yep - there is that!

[kctim]

4. Thanks, will be letting them know I want them to kill the bill

Just so you know though, the public option is also an individual mandate and it will have criminal penalties, so not a good example to use.

[redqueen]

5. Or call toll free at 1-800-828-0498. (nt)

[Cleita]

9. Thanks for the information. I have printed it out and after work tomorrow morning,

I have permission to use the fax machine. They should get there before shop closes in Washington. Everyone on your list will get one from me. Again, thank you for your work.

[Cleita]

10. This requires another recommend for

the greatest page.

:kick:

[Pab Sungenis]

11. That won't happen

our own friendly BlueDUgs and the "even bad change is still change" crowd will keep unrec'ing it, rather than admit that they're wrong.