Word: recessiveness
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...January, President Barack Obama has made clear that he views this year as the best opportunity in decades to overhaul the nation's ailing health-care system; more recently, he has stressed that he wants the House and Senate to pass their respective bills before their monthlong August recess. That, to say the least, is not going according to plan. The Senate said on July 23 it would not make the deadline, and the House is also looking increasingly unlikely to produce a bill by then. This slows the momentum behind the President's top priority, giving opponents extra time...
...Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico) and three Republicans (top Finance Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, top HELP Republican Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Olympia Snowe of Maine) - are weeks behind schedule and are rushing to finish a bill before recess. But even if they're successful, the leadership would still need time to marry the HELP and finance bills together plus at least two weeks of floor debate before they could pass a final version - a process now bumped until September at the earliest. (Read "Obama's Health Push...
...potential cost of health care reform, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada announced on Thursday that he would not meet President Obama's target of passing legislation by early August. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of California backed away from the idea of cancelling the August recess. Obama tried his best to stoke a sense of urgency with a publicity campaign that included a televised press conference Wednesday evening. But caution prevailed over the orator's usual magic...
...president's deadline is more vague. "By the end of this year," Obama said after Reid's announcement, adding, "I want it done by this fall." But in Washington there is considerable worry that a month-long recess in the company of constituents worried about trillion-dollar deficits could sap whatever momentum remains for sweeping reform. Obama warned legislators not to lose their steel. "Sometimes delays in Washington occur when people just don't want to do anything that they think might be controversial. You know what? That's not how America has made progress in the past...
...while Obama presses for House and Senate passage of health legislation by the time Congress leaves town for its August recess, congressional leaders say privately that it's going to be all but impossible to meet that deadline. That in and of itself poses a new danger, which is why the White House has been so focused on hurrying along the process: a monthlong break would give opponents ample opportunity to pounce, while lawmakers are at home in their districts. "Right now, we're losing the messaging war," says Senator Chris Dodd, who, in the absence of ailing chairman...