AP via Huffpo: Obama Wants Senate Health Bill By Week's End

[flpoljunkie]

Obama Wants Senate Health Bill By Week's End

DAVID ESPO AND ERICA WERNER
July 14, 2009

WASHINGTON — House Democrats are moving ahead with sweeping health care legislation as President Barack Obama prods a Senate committee chairman to take faster action on a companion measure.

Moving forcefully on his top domestic priority, Obama told Sen. Max Baucus he wants legislation ready by week's end in the Finance Committee that Baucus chairs, according to numerous Democratic officials.

These officials said Obama made his wishes known directly to Baucus, D-Mont., at a White House meeting Monday attended by administration officials and senior Democratic lawmakers.

The virtual deadline underscored Obama's determination to push legislation through both houses of Congress before lawmakers go home for their August summer break.

"Don't bet against us. We are going to make this thing happen," the president told reporters earlier Monday, fresh from an overseas trip during which the momentum behind his health care agenda slipped.

The officials who described the private meeting did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss private meetings.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/obama-wants-senate-health_n_231216.html

[Frustratedlady]

1. Maybe he also wants the health care issue moving so that Holder can

begin investigations on the former administration.

Well, I can dream, can't I?