I have seen several reports indicating that Rep. [fill in the blank] is/is not going to support passage of health care reform over the past several days, but I haven’t seen anyone actually aggregate them all in one place. I tried to do just that.
Results below (all are Democrats unless otherwise indicated; click on the “XX” in the vote column for the hyperlink to the story describing the Representative’s vote):
| Representative Name | Original Vote | Now Leaning Yes | Now Leaning No | Now Undecided | Now Definitely Yes | Now Definitely No |
| John Adler (NJ) | No | XX | ||||
| Jason Altmire (PA) | No | XX | ||||
| Brian Baird (WA) | No | XX | ||||
| John Boccieri (OH) | XX | |||||
| Rick Boucher (VA) | No | XX | ||||
| Bart Gordon (TN) | No | XX | ||||
| Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (SD) | No | XX | ||||
| Larry Kissell (NC) | No | XX | ||||
| Suzanne Kosmas (FL) | No | XX | ||||
| Frank Kratovil (MD) | No | XX | ||||
| Dennis Kusinich (OH) | No | XX | ||||
| Michael McMahon (NY) | No | XX | ||||
| Walt Minnick (ID) | No | XX | ||||
| Scott Murphy (NY) | No | XX | ||||
| Glenn Nye (VA) | No | XX | ||||
| John Tanner (TN) | No | XX | ||||
| Michael Arcuri (NY) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Dan Maffei (NY) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Bill Owens (NY) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Dan Lipinski (IL) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Kurt Schraeder (OR) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Shelley Berkley (NV) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Bart Stupak (MI) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Jerry Costello (IL) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Kathy Dahlkemper (PA) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Joe Donnelly (IN) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Steve Driehaus (OH) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Brad Ellsworth (IN) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Marcy Kaptur (OH) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Paul Kanjorski (PA) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Dale Kildee (MI) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Jim Oberstar (MN) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Charlie Wilson (OH) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Solomon Ortiz (TX) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Raul Grijalva (AZ) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Joseph Cao (R-LA) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Steve Kagan (WI) | Yes | XX | ||||
| John Spratt (SC) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Dan Boren (OK) | No | XX | ||||
| Bobby Bright (AL) | No | XX | ||||
| Arthur Davis (AL) | No | XX | ||||
| Collin Peterson (MN) | No | XX | ||||
| Mike Ross (AR) | No | XX | ||||
| Ike Skelton (MO) | No | XX | ||||
| Gene Taylor (MS) | No | XX | ||||
| Jerry McNerney (CA) | Yes | XX | ||||
| Mike McIntyre (NC) | No | XX | ||||
| Chet Edwards (TX) | No | XX | ||||
| Jim Marshall (GA) | No | XX | ||||
| Jim Matheson (UT) | No | XX |
The vote count is obviously very fluid, and some of the individuals listed above have sent mixed signals on their possible vote. Where more than one position has been indicated, I have taken the most recent public position for inclusion in the table above.
Some of the votes above are also speculative. The identity of the “Stupak 12,” for example, has not been officially confirmed, but it is believed to include the individuals listed in the table in bold font (there are actually 14 names for the Stupak 12 listed, due to conflicting reports on the identity of the 12).
In summary, we have the following:
Former “No” Votes Now Voting:
Leaning Yes: 6
Leaning No: 1
Undecided: 5
Definitely Yes: 0
Definitely No: 15
Former “Yes” Votes Now Voting:
Leaning Yes: 0
Leaning No: 9
Undecided: 13
Definitely Yes: 1
Definitely No: 0
216 votes are now required to pass health care reform (Rep. Abercrombie, Rep. Wexler, and Rep. Murtha are not in the House anymore and were all former “yes” votes; Rep. Massa was a former “no” vote who is no longer in the House).
If the vote were held today, based on the table above, the vote would be (assuming all leaning votes are cast in the direction in which they are leaning and all others vote as they voted for the original House bill):
Yes: 201
No: 214
Undecided: 16
Counting all those who are “leaning yes” or “leaning no” as “undecided,” the tally as of now is as follows:
Yes: 196
No: 204
Undecided: 31
Speaker Pelosi has her work cut out for her. Assuming all “leaning” votes are cast in the direction they are leaning, she will need to find 15 more votes to swing this in her favor (if leaning are counted as “undecided,” she will need to find 20 more votes). That said, this is certainly doable. She has 13 “undecided” votes to work with (or 31, depending on how you count it), plus 11 who have not expressed an opinion who previously voted “no” (see note below for the full list). Furthermore, any compromise on abortion could sway several of the “Stupak 12,” and it is even possible they may become convinced the current abortion language is sufficiently strong (see here for a good summary of why). Of the “Stupak 12,” the only Representatives thus far to have stated they will not vote for the bill without an abortion “fix” are Berry, Driehaus, Lipinski and Stupak.
This fight is far from over. Please call your representative today and push them to vote “yes” for health care reform.
NOTE: Several original “no” votes have not expressed an indication on how they will vote this time. Those Representatives are: Barrow (GA), Boyd (FL), Chandler (KY), Childers (MS), Davis (TN), Griffith (AL), Holden (PA), Markley (CO), Melancon (LA), Shuler (NC), and Teague (NM) (11 total).
UPDATE: Dennis Kusinich added to the “no” column., Spratt added to the “undecided” column, and Kagan added to the “leaning no” column.
UPDATE II: Due to a helpful update on www.thehill.com, we have significantly updated the table from the earlier version. Earlier, I had placed all suspected members of the “Stupak 12″ into the “leaning no” category. The Hill has clarified that many of them should instead be listed as “undecided” instead, other than the four listed above who will not support the bill without changes to abortion language.
UPDATE III: Matheson moves to “undecided,” and Marshall moves to “no.”

State of Health Care Reform
President Obama is receiving a significant amount of criticism for being too “hands off” in governance. His leadership style with respect to health care in his first year largely involved speaking in generalities on the topic and leaving the details and messy process to Congress for resolution. When the process would start to collapse, he would once again deliver a powerful, albeit unspecific, speech on health care, and urge Congress to get back to work. Time and again they did. In the end, health care reform hasn’t yet passed, but whatever you may think of Obama’s leadership in the first year, he came closer to shepherding comprehensive health care reform to passage than any president who has ever tried.
Now granted, “close” isn’t much consolation in politics, especially to the tens of thousands of people who will die because they do not have health insurance in the United States. So why does “close” matter? Because if we were close to finalizing health care reform two weeks ago, there is no good reason we can’t still be close today- and finished tomorrow. To understand what Obama can do to finalize the bill, we need to first understand who the obstacles are.
The House of Representatives has been particularly responsive to Obama’s calls to action- and not just on health care either. Of course, the House doesn’t have to deal with the filibuster or the nonsensical Senate tradition of the “hold” which permits one single Senator to block debate or passage of a bill indefinitely (or at least until the Majority Leader grows weary of the hold). At every step of the health care reform process last year, the House was ahead of the Senate. The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a draft bill in August while Sen. Baucus’ committee toiled on. The House then passed its full bill in November while the Senate remained stuck in negotiations. The nation’s attention turned to the Senate and, rather than rise to the occasion, the Senate had to deal publicly with the ego of Joe Lieberman, the special interest demands of Senator Nelson and Landrieu, and procedural votes taking place in the late hours of night or in the early morning on Christmas Eve. The public reacted to the messy Senate process about as one would expect- negatively.
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