Wednesday, March 10, 2010

We need 24 votes in the House to get health reform.

We need 24 votes in the House to get health reform.

Democratic leaders in the House need 216 votes to pass the Senate Health Reform bill and then move to reconciliation. As of now they are 24 short.

David Dayen at FireDogLake provides this count of the votes for and against health reform in the House as of today.

The full breakdown:

Definite YES: 192 Democrats.

Definite NO: 194 -- 177 Republicans and 17 Democrats.

16 Democrats who voted No in November:

Bobby Bright, Mike McIntyre, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Walt Minnick, Artur Davis, Chet Edwards, Frank Kratovil, Mike Ross, Dan Boren, Gene Taylor, Larry Kissell, Dennis Kucinich, Collin Peterson, Ike Skelton, Jim Marshall, Mike McMahon.

1 Democrat who voted Yes in November:

Mike Arcuri.

21 potential Democratic No-Yes flip votes

14 possible:

Jason Altmire, Bart Gordon, Glenn Nye, Brian Baird, John Tanner, Rick Boucher, Allen Boyd, John Boccieri, Suzanne Kosmas, Betsy Markey, John Adler, Scott Murphy, Lincoln Davis, Jim Matheson.

7 less possible:

Travis Childers, Harry Teague, Heath Shuler (severe lean no), John Barrow, Tim Holden, Charlie Melancon, Ben Chandler.

24 potential Yes-No flip votes:

11 Stupak bloc:

Bart Stupak, Jerry Costello, Charlie Wilson, Kathy Dahlkemper, Joe Donnelly, Joseph Cao (R), Steve Driehaus, Brad Ellsworth, Marion Berry, Marcy Kaptur, Dan Lipinski.

13 other wary Democrats:

Zack Space, Chris Carney, Mike Doyle, Paul Kanjorski, Ann Kirkpatrick, Alan Mollohan, Nick Rahall, Dan Maffei, Bill Owens, John Spratt, Dennis Cardoza, Dale Kildee, James Oberstar.

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/03/09/new-health-care-whip-count-192-yes-194-no/

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