Healthcare Reform by October

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/...ate/index.html

october? that leaves what...november and december for energy and CIR to meet the "immigration reform in 2009!" deadline?

its gonna be a long summer.

well, he wants a bill to be passed in the senate; by July 31. The president signing it is a whole different story. after the bill is passed, it goes under public review; technicalities.

I agree with Alex! When the President says a bill on his desk by October, that doesn't mean the Senate will talk about health care for several months. The main debate will take place in July with two weeks of floor time in the Senate and one week of floor time in the House.

For health care, the House and Senate will then move to conference committee in September and then produce a bill for the President to sign by October. For our purposes, once the health care bills clears the Senate in July, the Senate is free to talk about other matters such as appropriations bills or energy when they come back in September. That assumes a health care bill passes the Senate which I think it will.

The Senate Agenda thread talks about the health care debate in more detail. Also, I'm thinking about turning the Senate Agenda thread into a blog. Feel free to voice your opinion on the Senate Agenda as blog idea on the link as well.

CIR_DREAM why did you just repeat what i said... do you think you can school me like that??... damn, a white guy writes something; and then the Latino tells me they can do better... damn Sotomayor.

just grinding your gears lol

CIR_DREAM's white.

Oh no, I think we wrote at the same time, Alex. I'll go edit and say I agree with Alex! Oh and Judge Sotomayor is awesome, but I'm not Latino though.

EDIT: I'm also not white (sorry angeleno about your wrong guess). Umm, let's change the subject away from me (still a bit paranoid).

I could have sworn you were from Eastern Europe.

Whoops!

I'm starting to believe in Bruinman's word rather than Obamas

aww dont! obama's the man. you should skip my posts they may damage your "fragile spirit".

our future is getting shady every week. what's next i wonder.
but i'm still keep my hopes high.