List of Congressional Reps Insisting on 'Robust Public Option' for Health Care Leaked; Some Bay Area Names Absent

Categories: Health, Politics
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A list of more than 50 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus was leaked to a Daily Kos contributing editor yesterday. It contained the "Whip List" of representatives who had succinctly offered their promise to only vote for a health care proposal that contains "a robust public option."

Glancing up and down the list of names, most of the Bay Area's members of the Progressive Caucus were accounted for -- but not all of them. Starkly absent were Pete Stark (D-Fremont) and George Miller (D-Concord).

Was this an oversight? Or are the Congressmen simply playing this one close to the vest? Do they even wear vests? We called their Washington, D.C. offices to find out.

And, you know what? No one got back to us yet. We left messages for Stark's spokesman, Brian Cook, and we were transferred around like a telephonic hot potato until landing on Miller's communication director Rachel Racusen's voice mail.

When their word gets to us, our word will get to you.


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