Feingold supported the Senate version of the bill, which he said "is a reasonable compromise. It is not a government takeover of health care."
Candice Owley, a local labor leader and former nurse from Milwaukee, said two of her sons are in the restaurant business, and only one of them has health care.
"People's lives are on the line," she said later, explaining why she supported reform legislation. "We have to get moving and get the bill passed."
But Lynne Wallis, a saleswoman from Whitefish Bay, told Feingold that she supported him in previous Senate races but won't back him this fall because of his support for the Senate health care bill.
"The government does not belong in health care," she said.
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The next closest thing may have happened Tuesday in Massachusetts. Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election to fill the Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy. Brown, who opposes the reform legislation, will become the Republicans' 41st senator, smashing the Democrats' filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate.
That could change everything, and give added fuel to the opposition.
"I can't go grocery shopping or fill up my gas tank without my neighbors asking how we can stop this train wreck and encouraging me to keep up the fight against this," Rep. Paul Ryan of Janesville said in a statement. "These aren't just Republicans. Independents and Democrats even are fed up with Washington, sick of being shut out of the process, and genuinely worried with just how quickly the federal government is encroaching into their lives."
