every one of you know your districts better than i do. you talk to folks. you are under enormous pressure. you are getting robo calls and e-mails that tie up the communication system. i the pressure you are under. i get a few comments made about me i don t know if you noticed. [ laughter ] i know what it s likes to take a tough vote. one thing for sure, i m not bound to win, but i m bound to be true. two generations ago, folks were sitting in your position, they made a decision, we re going make sure that seniors and the poor have health care coverage that they can count on. they did the right thing.
i m sure the time they were making that vote, they weren t sure how the politics were either. any more than the people that made the decisions to make sure social security knew how the politics would play out or folks on the civil rights act knew how the politics were going to play out. they were not bound to win, but they were bound to be true. now we ve got middle-class americans that don t have medicare, don t have medicaid watching the employer-based system fray along the edges and being caught in terrible situations. the question is, are we going to be true to them? sometimes i think about how i got involved in politics.
country, where you have a chance to make good on those promises you made in all those town meetings and all of those constituency breakfasts and all of that traveling through the district. reporter: this president has reportedly told lawmakers, privately, that the fate of his presidency rests on the vote they ll make tomorrow. but on this day, he said, don t do it for me. don t do it for the democratic party. vote yes for the american people. julie? julie: wendell, how important was it to the white house for the democrats to avoid the deem and pass parliamentary maneuver? reporter: it is an important plus but the president himself, partly, made it happen, by repeatedly saying in public and private no matter what the parliamentary procedure was, that of the vote the democrats took, the public would see it, as a vote for health care reform, and, since the president and his aides said, republicans are going to use the rather unpopular nature of the process over the past year, to
welcome to a new hour. i m julie banderas joined by gregg jarrett. a day before this big vote set to happen tomorrow. dysz now saying they are confident they have the votes to pass the biggest health care overhaul assistants the great depression. let s get straight to carl cameron with the latest developments. hi there. he let democrats know that he knows the pain that they feel. the problem for passing for democrats has been the division in the democratic party. just one thing, here is some of the comments to help frame in it terms of heavy thing he has to get it over the necessary votes. by some democrats, they are only short five votes but we have them over the threshold. he says i know it will be a tough vote but it will be good
all the information out there that says without serious reform efforts like this one, people s people s premiums are going to double over the next five to ten years. folks are going to keep getting letters from their insurance companies, their premiums went up 40-50%. if you think that somehow it s okay that we have millions of hard working americans who can t get health care. that it s all right and acceptable in the wealthiest nation on earth that children with chronic illnesses that can t get the care that they need if you think that the system is working for ordinary americans rather the insurance companies, then you should vote no on this bill. if you can honestly say that, then you shouldn t support it. you are here to represent your constituents and if you don t think they will be honestly helped, you shouldn t vote for