Reid: No health care vote in Senate until fall

Thursday, July 23, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday abandoned plans for a vote on health care before Congress' August recess, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama's ambitious timetable to revamp the nation's $2.4 trillion system of medical care.

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