Reed Calls on Speaker Pelosi to Delay Health Care Vote; Says Holding Vote With Vacancies disencranchises Millions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Congressional candidate Tom Reed this morning called on House Speaker Nance Pelosi to delay the
vote on accepting President Obama’s healthcare plan until after special elections have been held to fill
vacant House of Representatives seats in Florida, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and in New York’s 29th
Congressional District.

“Collectively these districts represent more than two and one half million people,” Reed observed. “To
disenfranchise these people on one of the most important votes of this Congress is wrong. We’re talking
about an unprecedented takeover of one sixth of the American economy without details of how we are
going to be able to pay for this.”

The Senate passed this bill on the strength of now infamous backroom deals like the Louisiana Purchase
and Cornhusker Kickback. “Madame Speaker I submit that the voices of people in Western New York
are just as important as those in California, Nebraska, or Louisiana,” Reed declared. “The vote is going
to be extremely close. American taxpayers deserve to have the decision made by a full Congress.

“I demand that the vote be delayed until the people of the United States are completely represented,”
Reed concluded. “We deserve our voice just like the rest of the nation.”

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