Daily Kos did an excellent roundup yesterday about where the Public Option stands while healthcare is being debated in the Senate Finance Committee. The post encourages Progressives to contact their Democratic Senators and insist on a strong Public Option as part of the final healthcare bill.
Here is a list of the Democrats on the committee, and their contact information. If any of these men or women happen to be one of YOUR Senators, please call or click on the link to email them. Yes, offices are closed over the weekend - but voicemail and email inboxes always get checked.
Max Baucus MT (Committee Chair)
e-mail
Phone: (202) 224-2651
Fax: (202) 224-9412
John Rockefeller WV
e-mail
Phone (202) 224-6472
Fax (202) 224-7665
Kent Conrad ND
e-mail
Phone: (202) 224-2043
Fax: (202) 224-7776
Jeff Bingaman NM
e-mail
Phone: (202) 224-5521
Toll Free (in NM) 1800-433-8658
John Kerry MA
e-mail
Phone (202) 224-2742
Fax (202) 224-8525
Blanche Lincoln AR
e-mail
Phone: (202) 224-4843
Fax: (202) 228-1371
Ron Wyden OR
e-mail
Phone: (202) 224-5244
Fax: (202) 228-2717
Charles Shumer NY
e-mail
Phone:(202)224-6542
Fax: (202) 228-3027
Debbie Stabenow MI
e-mail
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4822
Maria Cantwell WA
e-mail
Phone: 202-224-3441
Fax: (202) 228-0514
Bill Nelson FL
e-mail
Phone: (202) 224-5274
Fax: (202) 228-2183
Robert Mendez NJ
e-mail
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4744
Fax: (202) 228-2197 fax
Thomas Carper DE
e-mail
Phone: (202) 224-2441
Fax: (202) 228-2190
Did you see Debbie Stabenow's comeback to asshat Jon Kyl of Arizona? Kyl made smartass remark: "I don't need maternity care." Stabenow fired back, "Your Mom probably did." YEAH!
ReplyDeleteIt's Kyl's attitude that makes me want to vomit. If it's not directly related to you, it doesn't apply. I don't have kids...I don't use the library...I never visit national parks...I don't have a chronic illness...why should I have to pay for other people? Since when did it become every person for themselves in this country? What happened to being a NATION, to working together towards a common goal, of a better life for all?
[pant pant pant] Don't get me started, David! ;) XOXO
great post David
ReplyDeleteThanks for this post David. I sure as hell sent a message to my Senator Mendez here in NJ. Without the Public Option the health care bill is meaningless. Except for the Insurance companies who stand to take in windfall profits!
ReplyDeletei don't want a public option. i want a single-payer system, like europeans, canadians, singaporeans and japanese do. it's so much better. instead of forcing everybody to BUY insurance, a single-payer gov't system would must cover everybody who needs it. they can just expand medicare to cover all and get the money from taxes (let's tax the wealthy and the corporations to make them pay their fare share -- right now they pay too little, specially during the republican administrations).
ReplyDeleteI wish I had a Senator on that list. Mine are all Repugs.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! And comments!
I'd like it to be a single-payer system, too. This hasn't been handled all that well, has it?