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Federal Lawmakers Switching Votes on Healthcare Reform
Sunday is crunch time. The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on the latest version of health care reform, and one Illinois group thinks the president will be pleased with the vote.

Campaign for Better Healthcare executive director Jim Duffett says he's seeing signs that the reform bill will pass. He says one of those signs came this week when U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) announced that he was changing his vote to yes. A few other congressmen have made the same decision. Duffett also cites support by a group of Catholic nuns that could go a long way in convincing people that the bill would not fund abortions, since that’s still a sticking point.

Duffett thinks people are getting tired of the political rhetoric, have noticed the deadline, and putting pressure on their elected officials to vote for the bill. If the legislation passes in the House, it will go to the Senate.

(Illinois Radio Network)
03 19 10 by Newsroom
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