House Dem Feeling Confident That The Senate Will Put Abortion Funding Back In The Health Care Bill
Was there ever any doubt that this would happen?
Of course, Democrats may be slitting their throats with this. By all appearances, the health care debate isn’t going to go nearly as quickly in the Senate as in the House. There isn’t likely to get it’s first vote until January, and perhaps longer if Republican efforts to delay the bill come to fruition. If the Senate ultimately passes a bill in the early part of 2010 and it includes abortion there will need to be another vote in the House to approve the changes so that both houses of Congress send an identical bill to the President for signature.
Given that the narrow victory Pelosi won on Saturday was based on a 5 vote margin, she can’t afford to lose any votes on a bill coming back from the Senate that suddenly includes the abortion provisions that Pelosi had stripped out of the bill the House passed in exchange for moderate Democrat support.
