On Monday, SEIU launched a click-to-call campaign in an effort to connect our online community with members of Congress, in favor of passing comprehensive reform. Activists logged more than 4,000 minutes on the phone with Congressional staff, and provided us with detailed reports that our lobbyists are now using.

When we launched on Monday, many in Congress hadn't indicated their position on passing comprehensive reform and opposing a piecemeal, incremental approach. In other words, at the beginning of this week, we were almost starting at zero.

Now, after thousands of conversations with House and Senate offices, we're making some gains. Each of the member's below received phone calls from SEIU's online community this week. Thanks to your calls, members of Congress are beginning to show some political courage. Keep the calls coming - click here to make a phone call, now.

Below are just a few of the quotes coming out of Congress this week:

Rep. John Tierney:

"I don't know how it's going to work out," Rep. Tierney said of health care.

"Taking a piece-by-piece approach would not be easy because the proposed changes are interconnected. If, for example, Congress were to prevent insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions, insurers would just raise premiums if price controls weren't included in whatever bill that passes." [Salem News, 1/26/2010]

"I'm not interested in scaling back the health care agenda." [Star Tribune, 1/26/2010]

" 'This is the Republicans' dream come true,' said Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., dismissing any notion that it may be time to downsize the administration's health care plans." [Star Tribune, 1/26/2010]

In addressing the problems of piecemeal reform, Sen. Leahy said, "That raises potential problems...If you implement the new consumer protection rules but without safeguards, then the insurance companies will just jack up everyone's premiums. That would be unacceptable." [Burlington Free Press, 1/22/2010]

"Every time you do one of those pieces, there's no guarantee the other pieces will be done...For instance, if you do market reforms but you don't deal with mandatory [insurance coverage], then it causes the insurance companies to spike those premiums." [Roll Call, 1/25/2010]

"And while I think we need to take a deep breath and thoughtfully evaluate how we're going to get this done, I am convinced that one of the proposals--to chop up the legislation and pass it in several pieces over several months--is imprudent and impractical." [Huffington Post, 1/23/2010]

"In health care, everything fits together... It's very hard to say we can cut this out and do that." [Associated Press, 1/22/2010]

"I heard somebody say this morning, we'll just do preexisting conditions. Well, you can't do preexisting conditions unless you do a mandate and you can't do a mandate if you can't make insurance affordable. ... It's just all inter-related." [Capitol News Connection, 1/22/2010]

Waxman "suggested a scaled back effort would also fail to achieve the goals Democrats established in the first place." He said, "We have to is keep our eye on the objectives of covering all Americans, holding down healthcare costs, providing reforms in the insurance system so they can't keep people from getting coverage." [The Hill, 1/21/2010]

"...Giving up on comprehensive reform or attempting to only pass small pieces separately...are either unacceptable or impractical." [The Hill, 1/22/2010]