Update -- healthcare showdown in House

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: 4 November 2009 2:30 p.m. EST

Your calls are working -- keep phones ringing, demanding FULL verification

DEAR FRIENDS,

Our Capitol Hill team just reported to me that inside sources say the U.S. House leadership continues to be tied up over the remaining immigration issues in the giant healthcare bill.

Your phone calls this afternoon are extremely important, especially if you live in the states of the Democratic members of the House Rules Committee.
California

Colorado

Florida

Maine (Vermont & New Hampshire should give some help here)

Massachusetts

New York

These members are struggling with pressure from a lot of their Democratic colleagues who want FULL verification guarantees through the entire healthcare bill that illegal aliens can't participate. (But Speaker Pelosi does NOT want full verification.)

Your phone calls can help break the tie.

If you don't live in those states, keep calling the Democratic Representatives from your own state and tell them they need to put the pressure on Speaker Pelosi and the Rules Committee to deal with the items listed above.

Click on CongressGrades.org and then click on your state on the map to get a full list of Members of Congress from your state. Phone 202-224-3121.

PHONE THE RULES COMMITTEE NOW 202-224-3121

Many of you have been calling them all week. But their offices aren't getting enough calls. If they are to buck Speaker Pelosi and bring a RULE to the House floor allowing consideration of full verification, they need to show that they have been under extreme public pressure.

Call them from these talking points.
Don't make Pres. Obama a liar. He went on national TV and promised that the bill would be written so that no illegal aliens can participate. The current bill does NOT back up the President's promise.

The current House bill as reported in the media would have verification procedures to screen out illegal aliens in only one of the many parts of the new federal plan.

It is up to the Rules committee to either include verification in EVERY part of the bill, or to bring an amendment with full verification to the floor and allow Representatives to vote on it.

Verification has to cover Medicaid and "affordability credits" for the "exchange."

Illegal aliens must not be allowed any access to the health insurance exchange.

If you DO live in these states, please phone now at 202-224-3121:

Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.)
Rep. James P. McGovern (D-Mass.)
Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.)

Rep. Doris O. Matsui (D-Calif.)
Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.)
Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-N.Y.)

Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.)
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine)
Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.)

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

received by e-mail from
Roy Beck immigrationinfo@numbersusa.com
Wed, Nov 4, 2009 5:04 pm

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