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That’s what Rep. Pete Stark, chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, implied today, according to The Hill. The California Democrat said that the economic troubles facing the country — as well as “deferred maintenance” health care issues like the renewal of SCHIP — would push the larger reform debate to late 2009 or [...]

Palin often calls herself working class. But over the course of her political career, when faced with policy choices on issues important to blue-collar voters, Palin rarely breaks in their favor.

For months, political observers have been waiting for Congress to revisit legislation to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which President George W. Bush has vetoed (and House Republicans have sustained) twice in the last year.
The thinking was purely political: That is, even if the Democrats couldn’t sneak their SCHIP expansion past the White [...]