From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: 4 November 2009 9:30 a.m. EST

Healthcare showdown in House

Make some phone calls to keep pressure on House to have full verification

DEAR FRIENDS,

Your months-long pressure on Congress to guarantee no participation by illegal aliens in any new federal healthcare program is making a real difference this week.

The House leadership is trying to bring its bill to the floor for debate and a vote this weekend.

But Capitol Hill news media are reporting that immigration remains one of the biggest reasons that Speaker Pelosi still can't count 218 votes to pass the bill.

A lot of Democratic Representatives are balking at supporting the bill until the verification against illegal aliens is stronger.

If you want to help, you can make phone calls today and the rest of the week re-emphasizing how much the public is watching this issue.

202-224-3121

Several groups of you have already been making speciality calls I requested from you earlier this week. Keep making them.

Everybody, check your Action Board for specific action requests. If you don't find a specific request on this healthcare issue, just follow the guidance in this email Alert.

Here's the story:

Last summer, Speaker Pelosi would not allow ANY verification requirements in the healthcare bills as they went through committees.

But after massive public protests and after Pres. Obama promised that any bill's requirements will keep illegal aliens out of the system, Pelsoi has relented a bit.

Reports now indicate that she has allowed a pretty strong verification requirment ONE ONE PART OF THE HEALTHCARE PLAN.

The holdup is happening behind the scenes because Republicans are screaming -- and many Democrats are agreeing -- that Pelosi's new verification requirements cover only one of the many parts of the plan. That amounts to a trick.

You will be calling U.S. Representatives -- particularly your own -- and demanding that the bill require verification for everything . . .

. . . including Medicaid and "affordability credits" for the "exchange."

And you will insist that illegal aliens not be allowed any access to the health insurance exchange.

Right now, the Democratic leadership in the House is refusing to allow the House to vote on an amendment that would guarantee all that we want.

Your phone calls should point out that if the bill comes to the floor without the FULL verification guarantees, that the Representative should vote against the Rules Committee rule for the bill.

A majority vote against the rule would send the bill back to the Rules Committee where it could then decide to allow a vote on the verification amendment.

It is possible that NumbersUSA will grade a YES vote on the rule as being a YES vote for allowing illegal aliens to get the new federal healthcare.

I know that all of this is a bit confusing. The important thing right now is for you to be ringing the phones throughout Congress and making it clear that the illegal immigration issue is alive and threatening.

All of your faxes and phone calls these last few months are the reason we are this close to victory on fully barring illegal aliens at this time. Please keep it up.

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE MADE SO MANY PHONE CALLS ALREADY THIS WEEK,

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