samurai7
July 22nd, 2009, 11:25 pm
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that a pre-recess vote on healthcare reform is unlikely.
“We’re going to take a little longer to get it right,” Durbin told The Hill when asked about the oft-stated goal of a vote on or before Aug. 7, when a monthlong Senate recess begins. “Initially we had hoped for a full vote by then, but I don’t think it’s going to be possible.”
Delaying the vote until after Labor Day would all but erase hopes of getting a bill to President Obama by mid-October, since the House and Senate versions would have to be reconciled in conference negotiations — assuming they pass their chambers.
Durbin said the bill was still largely on track, however, denying that momentum has stalled.
"I don't think so," he said. "This is a complex challenge, and we're taking a reasonable approach with it. It would be better if some Republicans joined us instead of just criticizing."
Asked Tuesday about the pre-recess deadline, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had stuck to it, telling reporters “my desire is to get it done this work period … But the goal is not a deadline. The goal is comprehensive healthcare reform
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/durbin-no-pre-recess-vote-on-healthcare-2009-07-22.html
We have won a battle kiddies, that doesn't mean we have won the war.
DON'T LET UP PRESSURE! Keep up the pressure on your Congressmen and Senators. Call them, email them, and be a total pain in the ass of them until it's clear this bill will not see the light of day.
YES WE CAN, defeat Obama's radical agenda! Fight the good fight people! I don't intend to helplessly watch my mother or anyone else die, just because some pompous bureacrat thinks he can decide who lives and who dies!
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“We’re going to take a little longer to get it right,” Durbin told The Hill when asked about the oft-stated goal of a vote on or before Aug. 7, when a monthlong Senate recess begins. “Initially we had hoped for a full vote by then, but I don’t think it’s going to be possible.”
Delaying the vote until after Labor Day would all but erase hopes of getting a bill to President Obama by mid-October, since the House and Senate versions would have to be reconciled in conference negotiations — assuming they pass their chambers.
Durbin said the bill was still largely on track, however, denying that momentum has stalled.
"I don't think so," he said. "This is a complex challenge, and we're taking a reasonable approach with it. It would be better if some Republicans joined us instead of just criticizing."
Asked Tuesday about the pre-recess deadline, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had stuck to it, telling reporters “my desire is to get it done this work period … But the goal is not a deadline. The goal is comprehensive healthcare reform
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/durbin-no-pre-recess-vote-on-healthcare-2009-07-22.html
We have won a battle kiddies, that doesn't mean we have won the war.
DON'T LET UP PRESSURE! Keep up the pressure on your Congressmen and Senators. Call them, email them, and be a total pain in the ass of them until it's clear this bill will not see the light of day.
YES WE CAN, defeat Obama's radical agenda! Fight the good fight people! I don't intend to helplessly watch my mother or anyone else die, just because some pompous bureacrat thinks he can decide who lives and who dies!
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