WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama warned Thursday that if Congress doesn’t deliver health care legislation by the end of the year the opportunity will be lost, a plea to supporters to pressure lawmakers to act.
"If we don’t get it done this year, we’re not going to get it done,” Obama told supporters by phone as he flew home on Air Force One from a West Coast fundraising trip.
Obama’s political organization, Organizing for America, invited campaign volunteers to a conference call to describe a June 6 kickoff for its health care campaign. The president’s message to his re-election campaign-in-waiting was simple: If volunteers don’t pressure lawmakers to support the White House’s goal on health care, Washington would drag its feet and nothing would change.
"The election in November, it didn’t bring about change. It gave us an opportunity for change,” the president said.
The plea came as lawmakers prepare for an aggressive schedule of work aimed at producing comprehensive health care overhaul bills in the House and Senate by August.
Committee hearings — and thereafter votes — will start next week after lawmakers return from a weeklong recess. Many Congress members spent the break holding town hall meetings and other forums with their constituents about health care.
by the associated press
"If we don’t get it done this year, we’re not going to get it done,” Obama told supporters by phone as he flew home on Air Force One from a West Coast fundraising trip.
Obama’s political organization, Organizing for America, invited campaign volunteers to a conference call to describe a June 6 kickoff for its health care campaign. The president’s message to his re-election campaign-in-waiting was simple: If volunteers don’t pressure lawmakers to support the White House’s goal on health care, Washington would drag its feet and nothing would change.
"The election in November, it didn’t bring about change. It gave us an opportunity for change,” the president said.
The plea came as lawmakers prepare for an aggressive schedule of work aimed at producing comprehensive health care overhaul bills in the House and Senate by August.
Committee hearings — and thereafter votes — will start next week after lawmakers return from a weeklong recess. Many Congress members spent the break holding town hall meetings and other forums with their constituents about health care.
by the associated press
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