Pelsosi Says She'll Get the Votes

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will get the votes needed to pass health reform, but it won't be easy. On ABC's This Week she said the following:

"Our members, every one of them, wants health care. They know that this will take courage. It took courage to pass Social Security. It took courage to pass Medicare. And many of the same forces that were at work decades ago are at work again against this bill. But the American people need it. Why are we here? We’re not here just to self-perpetuate our service in Congress. We’re here to do the job for the American people, to get them results that give them not only health security, but economic security.”

The President apparently will share his preferred strategy this week, according to Ann DeParle, the director of the White House Office of Health Reform: "All the president is talking about is: Do we need to address this problem, and does it make sense to have a simple up-or-down vote on whether or not we want to fix these problems?"

Read more from the New York Times here and from the Washington Post here.