100,000 Americans warn Congress against reconciliation on Obamacare

“In less than one week, more than 100,000 Americans have signed their names to a petition demanding that lawmakers resist using “reconciliation” to ram a government takeover of America’s health-care system through Congress – and those signatures will be delivered directly to lawmakers Tuesday.

…Brandon urged Americans to sign the petition and include comments and zip codes. FreedomWorks will deliver the petition results directly to lawmakers and ensure comments from constituents reach each person’s own representative.

“For activists who are from a district in Pennsylvania we’ll be able to go in and bring all the comments from Pennsylvania and leave them with Sen. Arlen Specter,” he explained. “We’re going to make sure these peoples’ voices get heard on the hill.”

Tea partiers will also “surge” on Capitol Hill Tuesday as a show of opposition to the Democrats’ health-care reform. FreedomWorks is planning a March 16 rally called the “People’s Surge Against Obamacare 2.0” outside the Cannon House office building located at Independence Ave. SE and New Jersey SE. The group will rally from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. People will be bused in from various parts of the country.

“We’ll probably have at least 1,000 if not more people coming in to this event,” FreedomWorks’ director of federal and state campaigns, Brendan Steinhauser, told WND. “We’re telling people to go right into the three House office buildings: Cannon, Longworth and Rayburn. Find your congressmen, whether they are in the cafeteria, their offices, in the halls or hiding under their desks, and tell them to vote no. It’s very simple.”

He added, “We’ll help direct traffic. Come and deliver your message to Congress.”

Steinhauser is also urging citizens to visit district offices and organize local town-hall meetings this month.

He said FreedomWorks personnel will be on the street corner in front of Cannon building handing out maps of office locations and copies of petitions so people can take them to their representative on Tuesday.

“It’ll be interesting to see what Nancy Pelosi does,” he added. “Last time she told them all to run and hide.”