Yesterday, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 passed by an overwhelming margin - 289 to 139. If you want to see how your representative voted, click here to see the vote report by state.
This vote came on the heels of a 24 hour flood of phone calls from hundreds of online activists through SEIU's Change That Works campaign. Here are some cool facts about your efforts:
- Through SEIU.org, online activists contacted 172 members of the U.S. House, many of them multiple times. All together, we logged 1,425 minutes on the phone with our members of Congress.
- Of the 40 Republicans who ended up voting for the bill, 16 were contacted by our online activists.
- Of those 16 you contacted, six of them were previously opposed to or undecided about the reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program.
We can expect the Senate to take up this legislation as early as next week; and the vote in the Senate is likely to be closer than in the House.
We'll send more information as the vote approaches so you can help move the Children's Health Insurance Program out of the Capitol and on to President Obama for his signature.
