Tea Parties to 'Surge' Capitol Hill

In less than one week, more than 100,000 Americans have signed their names to a petition demanding that lawmakers resist using "reconciliation" to ram a government takeover of America's health-care system through Congress – and those signatures will be delivered directly to lawmakers Tuesday.

FreedomWorks launched its "No Reconciliation" petition on March 6. It has already collected thousands of signatures to hand deliver during its March 16 rally called the "People's Surge Against Obamacare 2.0." The group is urging Americans to sign their names before the petition is presented.

"We the undersigned ask all senators to respect Senate tradition and resist using inappropriate 'reconciliation' rules to pass the health-care legislation on narrow partisan lines," the petition states. "The traditional 60 vote threshold is meant to avoid the tyranny of the majority and is why the Senate is called the most deliberative body in the world."

Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks told WND, "Reconciliation was invented as a budgetary process to make it easier to lower deficits. It was a streamlined method used for spending bills that were going to lower deficits. They are claiming that this bill will lower deficits. This bill does nothing to hold spending in line."