Dr. Carol Paris is a psychiatrist who lives and practices in St. Mary’s County, Maryland.

She is one of the Baucus 13 — arrested for trying to get Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) to put single payer on the table.

Since the arrest, she’s been trying to get her own Congressman — Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) — to fulfill his pledge to her.

The pledge?

Get the Congressional Budget Office to score single payer — to prove it’s the only health care reform that will save money and cover everyone.

“I tend to be kind of naive,” Paris told Single Payer Action last week. “A few months ago I called his office and his chief of staff offered to have a meeting with me and Margaret Flowers and Donna Smith and members of the labor movement. Congressman Hoyer joined us at that meeting for a few minutes. At that meeting I came away with the sense that he at least he had agreed to be sure that the HR 676 got scored by the Congressional Budget Office.”

“That meeting as I recall was in late March or early April,” Paris said. “And since that time I’ve seen really no movement on his part and I’m disappointed in him.”

Last Friday was Steny Hoyer’s 70th birthday.

And every year for the last 29 years, on his birthday, Steny Hoyer holds a bull roast.

At the bull roast, held at a lavish estate in Bowie, Maryland, powerful politicians from around Maryland show up to wish the Majority Leader of the House a happy birthday.

And lo and behold, Dr. Paris got an invite to the bull roast.

“I spoke with his office today, offering to come by as I do many Fridays to drop off the latest stack of signatures on the petition for HR 676,” Paris said. “His chief of staff invited me to the bull roast birthday party for Congressman Hoyer tonight.”

“But he told me that it would be inappropriate for me to bring the petitions and petition people at the bull roast. And I just decided that if all they’re looking for is, you know, chicks to go and attend bull roasts and play nice, I’m not interested.”

So you’re not playing nice with Steny Hoyer anymore?

“I will be respectful and be firm that I haven’t changed what I’m asking for,” Paris said. “I still want the single payer bills S. 703 and HR 676 scored by the Congressional Budget Office. I know that if they get scored, we’re going to win hands down from the stand point of fiscal viability.”

What’s your take on President Obama?

“Well I’m confused now because President Obama said first we need to take back the White House, take back the Senate and take back the House,” Paris said. “Again I guess I’m kind of naive. I thought he meant we had to take it back from the Republicans. But now I realize what he means is that we have to take it back from the insurance lobby and the pharmaceutical lobby and the medical device lobby and all the other lobbies who are paying millions and millions of dollars into the coffers of the President and Congress. So we still have to take back the President, we still need to take back the Senate, and we still have to take back the House. But not from the Republican Party. We have to take them back from the big money.”