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Though President Barack Obama gave a deadline on when he wanted health care reform legislation to be considered by the Congress, the Senate isn’t going to vote on a reform proposal until after the August recess which begins on August 7.
U.S., Senator Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., said as much to the Albuquerque Journal’s Michael Coleman earlier today, and MSNBC Politics reported the same news from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
“That’s not going to be possible,” Bingaman told Coleman. “But I’m still optimistic we can get a bill we can mark up in the Finance Committee.”
Reid told MSNBC, “It’s better to have a product based on quality and thoughtfulness rather than try to jam something through.”
MSNBC says that was “a near-echo of Republicans” who have been opposed to health care reform initiatives.
Bingaman is a member of the Senate Finance Committee and is currently working on a comprehensive bill — a bill which nine first-term senators including New Mexico’s Tom Udall, also a Democrat, urged the committee chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., to finish.
The letter started, “As new members of the United States Senate, we are deeply invested in the health care debate and agree that passing sensible reform is essential and cannot wait.”
The Hill reports that Baucus has been “courting” the freshman senators over the past few weeks to attempt to get them on board with his health care plan.
But that healthcare bill will have to wait until after the August recess to be voted on for any of those freshman senators.
