Well, the verdict is in on Barack Obama’s press conference last night. Democratic congressional leaders are conceding that they won’t pass a health care bill in either house before they go into recess early in August. Here’s the story from Politico and here it is from
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has explicitly conceded that the Senate won’t act. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, while insisting still that there are enough votes to pass the bill on the floor, is saying that it’s not so important to pass it before the recess. She tried to suggest that she fearful that members will encounter negative reaction over the recess by saying, “I’m not afraid of August. It’s a month.”
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