Senate Unsure of Health Care Reform Timeline
October 30, 2009
On Tuesday, November 2, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wouldn’t guarantee that a health care bill would pass his chamber before the end of the year. Also, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) confirmed that the Congressional Budget Office would not complete its analysis of the overhaul this week. Senator Reid will use the CBO’s analysis to piece together the final Senate health care reform bill.
The time required for the CBO to analyze the Senate package, as well as upcoming holidays such as Veterans Day and Thanksgiving, are complicating Senate leadership’s goal of delivering health care reform to President Barack Obama by year’s end.
