Obama Courts House Democrats Before Vote

Nov 5th, 2009 - New York Times

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In a last-minute exercise of presidential hand-holding, President Obama plans to travel to Capitol Hill on Friday morning to meet with House Democrats, one day before they vote on his highest domestic priority: a bill to overhaul the nation’s health care system.

Without any Republican support for the legislation, Mr. Obama and the House Democratic leadership must rely entirely on Democrats to get the bill passed. White House officials said the president wanted to address any lingering doubts about the legislation in the House, where liberal Democrats are concerned that the bill’s so-called public option - a government-backed insurance plan - is too weak, and where conservative Democrats are uneasy about whether the legislation would permit federal money to be used to pay for abortion.

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