Dems start countdown toward health care vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic congressional leaders showed signs of progress Monday in winning anti-abortion Democrats whose votes are pivotal to President Barack Obama's fiercely contested remake of the health care system.
Obama expressed optimism Congress would approve his call for affordable and nearly universal coverage as he pitched his plan on a trip to Ohio, while Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, among the bill's sharpest opponents, said he was "less confident" than before that it could be stopped.
"They'd have to be remarkable people not to fall under the kind of pressure they'll be under," DeMint said of rank-and-file Democrats.
The pressure was turned up Monday as the House Budget Committee, on a 21-16 vote, took an essential first step toward the House vote, which could come next weekend. Obama and his supporters labored in the capital and on Air Force One.
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