Health Care bill is sputtering...

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WASHINGTON — As President Obama began a new push to overhaul the health system, Democratic Congressional leaders, bowing to unease among lawmakers and governors in their own party, on Monday suggested scaling back a plan to tax top earners to pay for the sweeping legislation and signaled a retreat from their ambitious timetable.

House and Senate leaders had been pressing for floor votes in each chamber before lawmakers depart for the August summer recess. But Congressional aides said that it was increasingly clear the Senate would not be ready to vote on its bill before its recess begins on Aug. 8, and that House Democrats seemed unwilling to vote to raise taxes without knowingwhere the Senate stood.

Full article:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/he...health.html?hp

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HEY!! Maybe there is a CHANCE that the Senate and House will NOT come back after there break!! THAT would be SO COOL!!!