Reid Indicates Timetable for Health Care May Slip
Just wait until the Democrats lose Virginia, New Jersey, and New York 23.
“In a blow to the White House, the Senate’s top Democrat signaled Tuesday that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for passing health care legislation, leaving the measure’s fate to the uncertainties of the 2010 election season.
“Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., spoke as Democratic officials said it could be December before Senate debate begins in earnest on the issue atop President Barack Obama’s domestic agenda, months after senior lawmakers and the White House had hoped. The drive to pass legislation has been plagued for months by divisions within the party’s rank and file…
“While Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House leaders weighed final changes to their version of the bill, Reid for the first time publicly raised the possibility that lawmakers would not be able to meet their — and Obama’s — self-imposed deadline of completing work on health care by year’s end…
“Any delay past Obama’s oft-repeated year-end timetable would put the issue off until the 2010 election year and inevitably raise doubts about Democrats’ ability to deliver on behalf of the Obama administration…
“[O]fficials said it could be early December before the Senate begins work in earnest on long-delayed health care legislation, making it a virtual impossibility for lawmakers to send a compromise to Obama’s desk by the end of the year.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul
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