President Obama today showed no disappointment about the Senate's decision to delay a vote on health care reform beyond his initial(最初的) deadline(最后期限).
"That's OK," Obama said at a town hall meeting this afternoon at Shaker High School in Cleveland. "I just want people to keep on working. Just keep working."
"I want it done by the end of this year," Obama added. "I want it done by the fall(秋天)."
Obama's remarks came shortly after the Senate announced it would not vote on a health care bill before Congress' August recess(休会).
The timeline the president had hoped for was deemed(认为) unrealistic today, as Senate Majority Leader(多数党领袖) Harry Reid, D-Nev., said a Senate version of health care reform won't be finished before the break. Reid instead laid out new plans, saying the Senate Finance Committee would vote on its pieces of the measure before the Aug. 7 break, and he would then work on marrying that bill with the proposal to come out of a separate(单独的) Senate health panel(专门小组).