Tell Rep. Alan Mollohan: vote yes for healthcare reform

by: Clem Guttata

Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 15:04:14 PM EDT

According to this whip count, Rep. Alan Mollohan still needs to hear from all of us that West Virginians support health care reform and he should, too.

As a reminder, here are the many ways you can get in touch with Rep. Mollohan. You can email him at CongressmanMollohan@mail.house.gov or phone or fax (or visit!) at any of his many offices:

Washington DC Office
2302 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
ph: (202) 225-4172
fax: (202) 225-7564

Clarksburg Office
Room 209, Post Office Building
PO Box 1400
Clarksburg, WV 26302-1400
ph: (304) 623-4422
fax: (304) 623-0571

Morgantown Office
Marina Tower, Suite 504
48 Donley Street
Morgantown, WV 26507-0720
ph: (304) 292-3019
fax: (304) 292-3027

Parkersburg Office
Room 2040, Federal Building
425 Juliana Street
Parkersburg, WV 26101
ph: (304) 428-0493
fax: (304) 428-5980

Wheeling Office
Federal Building
Chapline Street
Wheeling, WV 26003
ph: (304) 232-5390
fax: (304 )232-5722

Update: From Josh Marshall, Let's Be Clear

Before the bamboozlement gets too far, let's be clear about what the House is considering doing. There are two bills. The senate's original bill and the changes to that bill the House has now negotiated with the Senate. Normally, this is all hashed out in a conference committee. And it's all voted on in a single vote. In this case, that's not possible because of the continuing Republican filibuster in the Senate. So the House is considering taking both bills, consolidating them into a single vote, up or down. The old fashioned way. This isn't 'not having a vote'. And this has been done repeatedly before. Anybody who thinks these two bills shouldn't be passed simultaneously or thinks one or the other shouldn't pass has a simple solution. Vote no. Simple.

This isn't complicated. It's consolidating two votes into one.

One of those odd things about Congress is that Democrats never gained any traction with their process arguments when the Republicans ran the show, yet some of those same Democrats get all nervous as soon as their hear the Republicans offer up even less convincing versions of process arguments.