Staff members on Capitol Hill might have to walk over “dead” bodies to get to work Tuesday morning as Tea Party protesters plan to meet their end in the Senate.

Well, sort of.

As the Senate gets into its second week of debate on health care, the protesters plan to turn the chamber’s offices and hallways into “government waiting rooms,” pretending to be sick patients waiting for treatment. As the day wears on, their “untreated illnesses” will get worse, and some will “die.” Yet, even in death, some corpses only plan to leave by force.

“We must remind them that our steadfast opposition to a government takeover of health care is as strong now as it has been all along,” Mark Meckler, an organizer, wrote on the Web site Tea Party Tax Day.

Mr. Meckler appeals to his Tea Party kindred to make the Christmastime “sacrifice” to come out and feign sickness and death, noting that “throughout history American Patriots have made far greater sacrifices than this to protect our liberty.”

The movement, which has likened most, if not all, of the Democrats’ efforts to socialism, last took to the Hill in November for the same cause and several others, encouraged by Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota, and Glenn Beck, the conservative Fox News host.