The health care overhaul is off the fast-track for now as Democrats, wary of unhappy midterm election voters, ponder the Massachusetts special election loss. Last week's vote cost them their filibuster-proof Senate majority.
Democrats want to hear Obama renew his commitment to the health care overhaul he's spent the past year promoting as his top domestic priority.
It is now badly adrift, and lawmakers want to stop talking about the divisive topic and move on to jobs and the economy. Those are the issues they say preoccupy their constituents.
