Democratic congressional leaders said on Thursday they would keep pushing for a stalled healthcare overhaul and would explore all options to pass it, but acknowledged the process would not move quickly.
The day after President Barack Obama's State of the Union address to the U.S. Congress, leaders in the Senate and the House of Representatives said they would not abandon the bill despite sharp Democratic divisions on how to proceed.
"We will move on many fronts -- any front we can," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of the overhaul, mired in legislative gridlock since last week's Republican win in Massachusetts cost Democrats their crucial 60th vote in the Senate.
"We must take whatever time it takes to do it," she told reporters. "But we are going to get healthcare reform passed for the American people."
SOURCE: Reuters
