democrats rejected the idea of rammingra through the bill befoe brown could take his seat in the senate. almost immediately jim webb, a democratic senator from virginia, called for a suspension of any health care vote, until after brown arrived. the day after the massachusetts election. senate majority leader harry reid said publicly, we're going to wait until the new senator arrives, untilnt we do anything more on health care. massachusetts democratic senator, john kerry, held a joint press conference with republican scott brown that same week where he said, quote, seating scott brown as expeditiously as p possible is important. we want to respect the election results, andod nobody wants to delay this process. and president obama, whose entire health care agenda was on the line, said this. here's one thing i know and i just want to make sure that this is off the table. the senate sternly shouldn't try to jam anything through until scott brown is seated. people in massachusetts spoke, he has got to be part of that process. this wasn't an easy decision. waiting for brown slowed down the