Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Still waiting for the Senate Bill -- but Senate & House leaders hope to end this session of Congress Dec 18th

Washington insiders reported today that Senate and House leaders are hoping to end this session of Congress by Dec. 18, even though neither chamber has figured out the end game for health care reform and must-pass appropriations bills.

Congress and staff are expecting to work through the weekends in December to try to meet this goal which is challenging given the current complexities of health reform legislation.

The Senate is expected to begin debate on its own version of health reform legislation but the expected CBO score has not yet been released today. Senator Reid has been expecting the CBO score to be finalized someone today. We understand that Senator Reid had several different health care scenarios sent to be scored by CBO and we hope to have draft legislation to review this week.

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