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Top Dem chairman signals House will act first on healthcare
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Feb 26, 2010 10:02am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Michael O'Brien |
| News Date | Friday, February 26, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The House could act first to pass a healthcare bill within the next month, a top House chairman signaled Thursday.
Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee and a close ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), suggested that the House may pass the Senate bill before any other action is taken -- a key concession to Senate Democrats.
"The choreography gets a little complicated here, but the House will present a reconciliation bill," Miller said during an appearance on MSNBC. "It will be based on many of the principles that the president put forth to correct some of the problems the House and others have had with the Senate bill."
But since Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate in late January, talks had stalled over how to proceed with healthcare, with House Democratic leaders saying only that they lacked trust in the Senate's ability to act. |
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