Some notes from around the country on the impending health care vote:

Four Illinois House Dems (Melissa Bean, Jerry Costello, Bill Foster and Deborah Halvorson) remain undecided and would not return phone calls to the Chicago Tribune yesterday.

Quote of the day, from Bart Stupak: "Everything they can possibly throw at me is being thrown at me. They attack me personally, where I live, my integrity, everything. This is a vicious town when they turn on you."

Oregon Rep. Peter Defazio "vowed to vote against the measure unless Medicare payments to doctors in Oregon and several other states are increased."

Indianapolis Star write up on Brad Ellsworth announcing his yes vote.

Florida adds two votes in the "yes" column: Suzanne Kosmas and Allen Boyd.

Dina Titus (D-NV) says she will vote for the health care bill because, "the public is demanding this." She may not have seen the polls. Her Nevada colleague Shelley Berkley will also vote yes. Both were yes votes on the original House bill.

Rep. Scott Murphy "quit playing coy" and came out in favor of health care.

Former Congressman David Bonior recalls the power of the Presidency in whipping crucial votes:

Even with all that, Bonior said the tools at his disposal as a House whip paled in comparison to the persuasive power of the White House.

An opponent of the North American Free Trade Agreement when it was debated by Congress in 1993, Bonior found himself on the opposite side of the Clinton administration on the issue.

"We had about a 25-vote lead going into the last two weeks. The President basically opened the store and people came down to the White House one by one and asked for things — roads, bridges, educational grants, fund-raisers," Bonior said.

"One by one I watched the lead disappear," he said. "The power of the presidency is huge."

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