In her column today at World Net Daily, pro-life blogger Jill Stanek tackles the mumbo jumbo procedures of the Senate that are important to the pro-life cause.
Basically, Senate Majority Leader Democrat Harry Reid is pushing to get the Senate version of healthcare to the floor for a vote but he can’t just bring it to the floor and make Senators vote on it. He has to go through a few procedures (votes) to get the bill to the floor. But there’s lots of problems with that.
1) The bill is still in “concept” so Reid has to bring a “shell bill” (an empty bill) to the floor and then substitute his yet-to-be-written-and-unveiled bill into it by a vote.
2) To get the shell bill to the floor itself, he has to have a vote on that, which is called a cloture vote and he needs 60 votes to pass it. Jill says that “This is the first and very important choke point to stop the Senate’s health-care bill from proceeding.”
So if Reid can’t pass the cloture vote, then he can’t even get the big bill on healthcare to the floor. This is important.
This is the first and very important choke point to stop the Senate’s health-care bill from proceeding. I’m told that all Republican senators, including Olympia Snowe, are planning to vote “no” on cloture. That means Reid will need 60 bodies physically present who will also vote “yes.” But several Democrat senators and Sen. Joe Lieberman are squishy, with various concerns in addition to publicly funded abortion.
These senators are our targets: Bayh, Byrd, Casey, Collins, Conrad, Dorgan, T. Johnson, Landrieu, Lincoln, McCaskill, Nelson, Pryor, Reid, Snowe and Warner.
We must pound them with calls. The ideal would be to shut down Senate phone lines.
The message is:
Vote “No” on any health-care bill or procedure that does not include the Stupak pro-life amendment at a minimum and that will protect and preserve life both young and old.
Contact your Senator here: http://bit.ly/2jE5Ie. It’s important to call YOUR own Senator and let them know you are a constituent.
Jill has lots of other helpful info in her column today including the incorrect talking points that the pro-choicers are using when they say that the Stupak-Pitts amendment goes beyond the status quo on government funding of abortion. Hint: they are way off base. See Jill’s full column here: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116382
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