Subject: txt 1st hcare
WASHINGTON - Chanting "Kill the bill," thousands of Americans rallied at the Capitol on Thursday against the Democrats' health care overhaul plan. The campaign-style event kicked off a day long protest against the legislation.
"This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I have seen,"
House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio told the crowd gathered on the lawn near the West Front of the Capitol... [snip]
"We certainly have well over 218 people who say they want to vote for the bill," Hoyer (D) said in an interview with wire service reporters. That is a majority in the 435-member House.
Obama also planned a rare trip to the House on Friday to try to win over wavering lawmakers.*
[*So there's still hope...]
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