Thread: No healthcare reform vote before autumn(Oct.): Obama

The scenario keeps changing doesn't it... Look at the last part -maybe Obama will finally get to know what is in this bill. Keep fighting this folks.


No healthcare reform vote before autumn: Obama
Jul 29 04:42 PM US/Eastern


U.S. President Barack Obama discusses health care reform during a town hall...

President Barack Obama said Wednesday there will be no vote on his proposed reforms of the US healthcare system before autumn, a setback that is costing him more political capital with each passing day.

"This bill, even in the best-case scenario, will not be signed -- we won't even vote on it probably until the end of September or the middle of October," he said in a session here to muster public support for the reforms.

"We're just trying to get all these different bills out of committee," he said.

Lawmakers are going through bills in both houses of Congress with fine tooth combs amid fierce opposition from Republicans and divisions within the Democratic majority and between the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Obama has pressed lawmakers to vote on the initial bills before departing on their summer recess August 7, but acknowledged that is unlikely to happen.

He was not clear whether he expected a final vote or only a first vote on the bill by the end of September or mid-October.

In the past, he has set a goal of signing the law around mid-October, or at least before the end of 2009.

A member of the audience asked Obama about lawmakers' assertions that they needed to take time to closely read the landmark legislative proposals.

"Some of the folks sincerely want to get it right, and we want to give them enough time to get it right. We don't want to just do it quickly, we want to do it right," he said.

"But some folks have specifically said on the other side: The more we can delay, the better chance we have of killing the bill."

He said that when Congress returns in September he would be "available to answer any question that members of Congress have."

"If they want to come over to the White House and go over line by line what's going on, I will be happy to do that," he said.

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Now the Democrats say they won't sign it!

BUT, they haven't gotten their person threat from Obama yet either!

Breaking: Blue Dogs win delay on ObamaCare vote; Update: Agreement on cuts, not on floor vote
posted at 12:45 pm on July 29, 2009 by Ed Morrissey



Despite rumors floating around Capitol Hill earlier this morning, Democrats will not rescue Barack Obama’s credibility by getting him a floor vote on ObamaCare this week. The Hill reports that Blue Dogs have successfully stalled the process until after the August recess as they try to win concessions in the bill’s composition:

The Blue Dogs and House leaders have struck a deal to guarantee that the House will not vote on a healthcare bill before August, a leading Blue Dog said on Wednesday.

In exchange for putting off a floor vote until after Labor Day, the Energy and Commerce Committee may be allowed to continue its markup of the healthcare bill this week even if an agreement has not been reached between Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and seven Energy and Commerce Committee Blue Dogs over the content of the bill.

Asked if House leaders had told Democrats that there will be no House vote on healthcare before Friday, Blue Dog Co-Chairwoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.) said, “I don’t think [leaders have] made public statements to that regard, but my understanding is that that would be part of an agreement, if they actually do move forward with an Energy and Commerce markup that there will be no vote on the House floor until after Labor Day.â€