Roll Call: Majority Hunts For Final Votes Roll Call reports that House Democrats are on a final push for the last votes they’ll need to pass health care reform: The strategy so far appears to combine a call for party loyalty with an argument for the measure on its merits — while publicly creating a sense of inevitability around its passage. And leaders are also pursuing targeted carrot-and-stick appeals to the self-interests of Members nervous about their re-election prospects. ‘It’s conversations about your future around this place and, with the White House, about what you’re going to get’ in terms of political support, one senior Democratic aide said.”
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