Health Talks Break Without Deal

• By Steven T. Dennis and Tory Newmyer
• Roll Call Staff
• July 23, 2009, 6:01 p.m.

Blue Dog Democrats, two White House officials and Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) left a multihour meeting Thursday afternoon in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) office without a resolution to the deadlock holding up the party’s $1.6 trillion health care bill.