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NY TimesDemocrats Slow Work on Health Bill
By ROBERT PEAR and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Published: July 21, 2009
WASHINGTON — Fiscally conservative House Democrats forced leaders of their party on Tuesday to slow the pace of work on legislation to overhaul the health care system to consider their concerns about the cost of the bill, its expansion of federal power and
and the contours of a proposed new government health insurance plan.
The fiscal conservatives, members of the House Blue Dog Coalition, pressed their concerns on President Obama at a White House meeting. The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, postponed a session of the panel, scheduled for Tuesday, so he could meet with Blue Dogs, who hold 8 seats on the committee, a potentially decisive number, since the panel includes 36 Democrats and 23 Republicans.
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