Health Reform Drive Has Hill Phones Ringing Off the Hook

Capitol switchboards were a traffic jam Tuesday as Organizing for America, the political action group that grew out of President Obama's presidential campaign, completed a massive phone-call effort, Talking Points Memo reported Wednesday. The group had hoped for 100,000 calls to Congress in support of health care reform, but well over 200,000 calls were placed by the end of the day.

Congressional staffers said the drive was the largest constituent feedback on health care they had ever received, and it was having an effect. One said her representative's office received 100 calls, all representing different opinions on how health care should be fixed. Some supported a single-payer system, some encouraged strong support for the public option, and some simply offered general support for the reform effort.