Democrats Disagree on State of Health Reform Bill

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they can't even agree on the STATE OF THE BILL?????


White House officials and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continued to say on Sunday that progress was being made on legislation to overhaul the health-care system, but fiscally conservative Democrats remained less optimistic while Republicans remained steadfast in their opposition to it.

Ms. Pelosi, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” declared: “When I take this bill to the floor, it will win. We will move forward, it will happen.”

But Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the chairman of the budget committee, said it was not possible or desirable to have a bill that carried only Democratic votes.

“Look, there are not the votes for Democrats to do this just on our side of the aisle,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“The only thing bipartisan about the measures so far is the opposition to them,” Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The White House had originally hoped that the legislation would be completed before the Congressional recess in August, and the White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, sought to put the best face on the missed timetable. “We

are enthusiastic about the progress that’s been made,” he said on Fox. “We think we’re on the road to getting comprehensive health care reform by this fall.”

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