As the post-Scott Brown phase of the health care debate unfolds, TPMDC is keeping score of where House members stand on the various proposals to move reform forward. Using reader emails as a starting point and confirming them with outside press accounts and our own reporting from Capitol Hill, we’re keeping up with Democratic Representatives as they sort out how — and if — the reform process gets back on track after the loss of the Democratic supermajority in the House.
The choices facing Representatives break down like this so far: A member can choose to vote for the Senate bill as it exists today, vote for the Senate bill with the promise that the Senate will use reconciliation to make immediate changes to it, split up both bills into smaller single-reform bills and hope there’s bipartisan support for them, scrap both bills and start over, or walk away from the process entirely.
Most of these options are new, and members are still making sense of them. Below is our confirmed list of where Representatives stand right now — check back often for updates as we receive them.
Pass the Senate bill: (1)
Abercrombie, Neil (HI)
Pass the Senate bill with separate amending bill: (12)
Capps, Lois (CA), Clyburn, James (SC), Dingell, John (MI), Frank, Barney (MA), Grayson, Alan (FL), Holt, Rush (NJ), Hoyer, Steny (MD), Kennedy, Patrick (RI), Pelosi, Nancy (CA), Sestak, Joe (PA), Van Hollen, Chris (MD), Watson, Diane (CA)
Pass a bunch of small bills: (9)
Arcuri, Michael (NY), Blumenauer, Earl (OR), Delahunt, Bill (MA), Grijalva, Raul (AZ), McDermott, Jim (WA), Pascrell, Bill (NJ), Tanner, John (TN), Woolsey, Lynn (CA), Yarmuth, John (KY)
Start over: (2)
Weiner, Anthony (NY), McCarthy, Carolyn (NY)
Noncommittal: (28)
Andrews, Robert E. (NJ), Becerra, Xavier (CA), Bishop, Tim (NY), Brady, Robert (PA), Capuano, Mike (MA), Cooper, Jim (TN), Davis, Susan (CA), DeGette, Diana (CO), DeLauro, Rosa (CT), Ellison, Keith (MN), Garamendi, John (CA), Hill, Baron (IN), Hodes, Paul (NH), Kind, Ron (WI), Lee, Barbara (CA), Lujan, Ben (NM) Maloney, Carolyn (NY), McDermott, Jim, (WA), Moran, Jim (VA), Neal, Richard (MA), Pallone, Frank (NJ), Pomeroy, Earl (ND), Rush, Bobby (IL), Schakowsky, Jan (IL), Speier, Jackie (CA), Stark, Pete (CA), Walz, Tim (MN), Waters, Maxine (CA)
Unknown:
Everyone else.
