In Health Vote, Democrats Weigh Success vs. Survival
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In Health Vote, Democrats Weigh Success vs. SurvivalIn Health Vote, Democrats Weigh Success vs. SurvivalWASHINGTON — In the homestretch of the health care debate,Carbon fiber hood, one obvious question#xbeing asked acrossdecorative fruitthe capital is whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi will find 216 votes to pass the bill. For a group of particularly jittery Democrats, the better question may be this: Who will be allowed to slip away?Yes, the 11th-hour vote tallying is under way at a brisk pace in offices from Capitol Hill to the West Wing, with Ms. Pelosi and her lieutenants keeping hour-by-hour tabs on wavering Democrats.But as the week inches along, with momentum steadily building to a Sunday vote, the party leaders are also beginning to decide which politically endangered lawmakers will be given absolution to vote no.Will it be Representative Steve Driehaus of Ohio, who supported the bill last year, but faces a bigger re-election threat than most of his colleagues? Or Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania, who voted no last year and is being besieged by health care opponents in his conservative district that President Obama lost in 2008? Or Bill Owens of New York, who came to Congress last year in a special election anddecorative fruithas a seat that Republicans are eagerly trying to win back?There are, of course, very few votes to spare. Yet there are some. And even most Republican leaders concede that the mystery is not so much whether Democrats will reach the magic number of 216, but rather whose names will be included as yes votes in the final count.“Every vote around here is a heavy lift,” Ms. Pelosi told reporters Thursday.That point has been underscored repeatedly #xthis week as on-the-fence lawmakers make their decisions. It has become such a vote-by-vote game thatdecorative fruitthe White House began sending out alerts to reporters each time a Democrat agreed to support the legislation.相关的主题文章：
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