Did the Democratic leadership need the vote of Bart Stupak and several other anti-abortion Democrats to pass the Senate health care bill? The vote on the rule to consider the legislation suggests they did. The rule carried 224-208.
The intrepid David Dayen of firedoglake.com notes that 28 Democrats voted against the rule. All but one had previously made public commitments to vote against the legislation; one, Mitchell (AZ 5) made a public commitment to vote for it.
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