Back from summer recess ... and legislative acitivity heats back up ....

The caucus remains deeply divided over the details of the more than 1,000-page measure and now faces a public that is more skeptical than when House committees began drafting the plan two months ago.

• "Health-care reform without a good public option is not health-care reform at all," said Rep. Lynn Woolsey (Calif.), a leader among House liberals. "We have to do this. That's why we're in the majority. That's why we have the White House."
• "President Obama needs to start talking about what's in the bill, not what's not in the bill, said Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.), who supports the legislation. "Whenever I see him on TV, he's talking about what's not in the bill."
• "I think, if anything, the mood has changed to be more favorable to health-care reform," said Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Ohio)
• "Personally, I'm probably more confident than when recess began," added Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (D-Pa.)

23 House Dems to Vote "No" on Current Bill

• Key Democrat says "no" to public plan