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Senator Harkin 202-224-3254 The US SENATE is scheduled to vote for cloture* on the 2074 page socialized healthcare bill TOMORROW, Saturday, November 21, 2009. If the bill passes cloture* it means the end of debate and the elimination of the threat of a filibuster, thus setting things up for a vote on the bill itself. Health officials have been terrible at predicting when and how much vaccine would be available. Only about 44 million doses have been shipped so far. Initially, officials said more than three times that would be out by now. At times vaccine shipments have been inexplicably lopsided. For example, smaller counties in Illinois and California have received the same amount delivered to counties with seven times as many people. Health officials have stressed that people most at risk for swine flu complications should go to the head of the line, but they haven't tried to make sure that actually happened. And despite pledges that they would be transparent about the vaccine program, some health officials have refused to disclose where all the doses are going, and they have held back on public service announcements telling people who should be coming in for shots. Also, many states were slow to establish Web sites that give vaccination locations. This is the kind of article we will be reading for the rest of our lives if this healthcare bill passes! Please call Senators Grassley and Harkin today and ask them to vote NO for cloture on the healthcare bill as well NO on the bill itself.-------- *Cloture - The only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter, and thereby overcome a filibuster. Under the cloture rule (Rule XXII), the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours, but only by vote of three-fifths of the full Senate, normally 60 votes. |
