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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Pelosi says Obama will garner votes to pass health reform AFP - Monday, March 1 Send IM Story Print Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (R) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (L) speak to the media outside of the West Wing of the White House, in Washington, DC, on February 25. President Barack Obama will muster the votes in the House of Representatives to force his flagship reform of US healthcare through without Republican support, Pelosi said Sunday. WASHINGTON (AFP) - – President Barack Obama will muster the votes in the House of Representatives to force his flagship reform of US healthcare through without Republican support, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday. Pelosi, in an interview with ABC television's "This Week" program, said Democrats would succeed in passing a bill despite concerted Republican efforts to derail Obama's top domestic priority ahead of crucial mid-term elections. "We're here to do the job for the American people -- to get them results that gives them not only health security, but economic security, because the health issue is an economic issue for America's families," she said. She said lawmakers first will "zero in" on the policy the president presents, and then determine what the two houses Congress can agree to. "I believe that we're ready for the next step, which is to write legislative language, and then go from there," she told ABC. Another leading Democrat, Senator Robert Menendez, said Obama's health reform program will be a done deal within a matter of weeks. "I think we will get to that point where we will have the votes. I believe that we will pass health care reform this spring," Menendez told the Fox News Sunday television program. After months of wrangling, the House and the Senate adopted different versions of a reform bill late last year but they must be combined into a single piece of legislation for Obama to sign into law. Obama is widely expected to announce in the coming days that he is prepared to use a process known as reconciliation to force a bill through Congress against Republican objections. This process would require the House to pass the Senate bill and also the Senate to pass a second bill making amendments to their version of the legislation to reconcile outstanding differences between Democrats. Pelosi, the most senior Democrat in the House, answered "yes" when asked by ABC whether she had the votes to pass the a health reform bill. "Time is up. We really have to go forth," she said, adding that the country could not wait any longer for a bill that would also bring a host of economic benefits to American families. Obama made one final effort to break the deadlock on Thursday with a televised summit at the White House with Democratic and Republican leaders. But the high-stakes, day-long meeting yielded no breakthrough with Republicans insisting the reforms go back to the drawing-board and Democrats painting the opposition as simply obstructionist. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that reconciliation was opposed not just by members of his Republican party, but by the voters. "We know the American people oppose this bill," he told CNN television. "They oppose using reconciliation to pass this bill. So this is really the Democratic majority in, frankly, a kind of arrogant way, saying we're smarter than you are, Americans. We're going to give this to you whether you want it or not." On Saturday Obama used his weekly address to again call for bipartisan support for attempts to overhaul the system and provide coverage to some 31 million uninsured Americans. "It is time for us to act. It is time for those of us in Washington to live up to our responsibilities to the American people and to future generations," he said. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president would make an announcement early this coming week laying out "where he sees the path moving forward." Another key Democratic senator however told CBS that the reconciliation process would not serve as a method to ram health reform through, because of parliamentary restrictions. "The major package of health care reform cannot move through the reconciliation process. It will not work," Democratic Senator Kent Conrad said. "The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability... which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care," he said. The House and Senate have failed to agree on a single piece of legislation for Obama to sign into law. Republicans derailed the process last month by capturing a crucial Massachusetts Senate seat that gave them the power to thwart final votes using a legislative tactic called a filibuster. With crucial mid-term elections lying ahead in November, Obama knows he can't wait much longer before either forcing through his present reform package or having a major rethink. 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