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overwhelm democratic, overwhelmly in support of this health care reform plan. are you going to pay at the polls? if i were to vote against the health bill, possibly. i don t know. do you think it s wrong to vote against what your con stitch wents want. it s not wrong to vote what my constituents want, but it s wrong to vote against my own conscience. representative gao is here to talk to us about his vote. and from philadelphia, we have margo margolis who s a former congresswoman. she served one term after casting the final vote for president clinton s tax hiking budget and you probably know when president clinton took on health care and what happened then. i want to say thank you to both of you for joining us, representative gao, before i asked you why it changed, what worried you and all that stuff, what s going on behind the scenes now, what can you tell our viewers about what s happening now in a push to
okay, i want to go now to ms. margolis, you wrote an op-ed on tuesday talking about your fateful vote 18 years ago, you say, quote, i was pressed on all sides my constituents opposed, my president needing a victory and republicans promising my demise. i voted my conscious and it cost me. i am your worst-case scenario, and i d do it all over again. i also think it s not a zero sum game. it s very possible that you can vote against it and have your constituents turn on you anyway. i think we have been discussing health care for decades now and this is a beginning, there are things in the bill that are strong, you just had a piece on it, which i think was a good summation and there are things that may not be, who know what is the cbo conclusions are.
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