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Sen. Reid Says Senate Won't Vote on Health "Reform" Until the Fall

July 24, 2009 (LPAC)—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Thursday that the decision was made on Wednesday night, that the Senate would not vote on Obama's Health bill until the Fall. "It's a complex, difficult issue. I think it's better to have a product that is one based on quality and thoughtfulness, rather than try to jam something through," Reid said to reporters. Reid said that he had listened to the requests from senior Republicans working with Baucus in the Senate Finance Committee to allow more time for a bipartisan bill. "The decision was made to give them more time, and I don't think it's unreasonable."

Obama had pressed for the full House and Senate to vote on respective bills before the August recess.

Finance Chairman Max Baucus said he hopes to mark up a health-care bill the week of Aug. 3, before the Senate recesses on Aug. 7.

Whether Baucus, who has made other such promises, will be able to deliver on this schedule, either, is yet to be determined.

It was reported on Thursday, that Republican Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has bowed out of bipartisan negotiations. Also on Thursday, it was reported that nine freshman Senate Democrats, largely in swing states, wrote a letter to Baucus, urging him to continue to negotiate a bi-partisan bill. And Baucus also got ambushed on Thursday morning by a number of senior Senate Democrats, led by Jay Rockefeller and Bill Nelson, who warned the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee that he had better stop negotiating behind their backs with Republicans, on the wrong assumption that Democratic support is in the bag.


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