Accountability

Written by: Mary R on Oct 29, 2009 1:02 PM EDT

It's been a big week for healthcare reform. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced the merged Senate bill will include the choice of a public option when it comes to the floor of the Senate for a full vote.



Once on the floor of the Senate, we'll push for Senators to pass amendments that will make a public option stronger and more robust. We'll try to expand the choice to every American, not just those who don't have insurance or states that don't Opt-Out. And we have to block amendments intended to kill a public option like Sen. Olympia Snowe's Trigger Trap.



But make no mistake about it, the fact that the merged Senate bill has a public option is a huge victory for progressives. It's a huge victory for you. We just scored a fourth quarter touchdown in the Superbowl and now it's up to us to make sure Democrats deliver the win.



That doesn't mean winning will be easy. It only takes one Senator of the 60 Senator Democratic Caucus to support a Republican filibuster to block the bill. It would be unprecedented. It would be a nuclear bomb on the President's top priority. And, some Senators are already threatening to do it.



Tell the Senate Democratic Caucus it is time for accountability. If ANY member of the 60 Member Caucus joins a Republican filibuster of healthcare reform with a public option, the Caucus must immediately strip that Senator of all Committee Chairmanships.



SIGN THE OPEN LETTER RIGHT NOW.



There's been a lot to celebrate this week, but we aren't done. We haven't won yet.



We will not stop until the President has signed the bill.

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