House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Healthcare won two more votes

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For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who plans to take a healthcare overhaul to the floor of the House on Saturday, this week’s elections meant one thing:

Two more votes.

With the elections of Democrats John Garamendi in California -- he will be sworn in today -- and Bill Owens in New York -- he will be sworn in Friday -- the House speaker says the party’s hand has only been strengthened in elections that cost the party two governor’s offices, in Virginia and in New Jersey, this week. ‘Tuesday night, we won two more votes for healthcare,’’ Pelosi (D-San Francisco) told reporters today. ‘I’m very proud of that because in both of those campaigns, healthcare was the issue.’’’

See the full report on Pelosi and the healthcare vote in the Swamp.

-- Mark Silva

Photo: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi responds to healthcare questions from the news media during a press conference in Washington. Credit: EPA