WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- The health care reform bill that is currently stalled in Congress could be passed piece by piece, said U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday.
Pelosi told reporters that the lawmakers are exploring various ways to move forward with the health care reform bill, including passing smaller pieces of the bill separately.
"We will move on many fronts -- any front we can," she said.
President Barack Obama vowed during his first State of Union on Wednesday that he would not give up the bill, which is in its last phase of passage in Congress, and urged public to take a fresh look at it when "temperature cools."
However, he focused his agenda in 2010 on job creation and economic agenda, signaling the shift of his priority for health care as the mid-term elections loom in November.
Pelosi noted that health care reform bill could also improve job creation and bring down the budget deficit, which was estimated to reach 1.35 trillion U.S. dollars last year.
The legislation was stalled in Congress after Scott Brown, a Republican, won the special election for a Senate seat in Massachusetts, ending Democratic Party's supermajority status in the floor.
"Right now we want to see where the Senate will go," Pelosi said.
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