The Senate’s vote on health care reform will now be at 7:00 am tomorrow morning. (See more here.) But the conference committee process that will begin after Congress takes a winter break will be contentious.
A lot of attention, as many readers of The Moderate Voice know, has focused on how women fare under the House and Senate versions. One outgrowth of that attention is the effort Not Under The Bus:
The facts page alone at the site makes it worth visiting if you really want to understand why many (not all – I’m not saying ALL) women are frustrated, to put it mildly, with both the House and the Senate versions. There are links and stats to satisfy every level of interest.
As a newly elected but not yet sworn in council member in my small city (less than 6000 total population), I’ve already attended to issues that have multiple stakeholders with different agendas. All I will say is what I’ve said before: no one should write about what an elected official to do, and believe that it’s the final word or even authoritative, until they themselves has run for and occupied elected office. You just have to be in these shoes to understand what it feels like to have those stakes coming at you.