Durbin: No pre-recess vote on healthcare

[babylonsister]

Here's my suggestion. CANCEL THE RECESS!

Durbin: No pre-recess vote on healthcare
By J. Taylor Rushing
Posted: 07/22/09 04:09 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 month-long 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.

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. People out there need it.”

The realities of the Senate’s next few weeks makes Durbin’s position understandable. The Senate Finance Committee is now not expected to finish its markup of its healthcare bill until next week, at which point it would have to be reconciled with the version passed last week by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.

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http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/durbin-no-pre-recess-vote-on-healthcare-2009-07-22.html

[spanone]

1. the trumpets will be blaring a republican victory

[Thrill]

2. Weakass Democrats.

[county worker]

3. Keep them in session!

[Zen Democrat]

4. Yes. No vacations without a health care bill!!!!!!

[timeforpeace]

5. Doesn't this pull the rug out from under the president before the speech tonight?

[RBInMaine]

Keep them in session one more week to get it done.

[Skidmore]

6. Why effin' not? That is not a good enough answer.

It is a weaselly way to cop out.

[virgogal]

7. Gee,what a surprise. :-)

[DJ13]

8. So recess will be "bidding time" to see how much they can sell their votes for?