Congratulations to the Associated Press for winning the What A Majorly Asinine Lede Award:
The Democratic-led Congress' determination to do something about health care this year has slowed legislation affecting the safety of almost every traveler in America.
Some possible rewrites for this ridiculous bit of drivel:
America's roads suddenly and mysteriously deteriorate in the past eight months.
Or:
Travel-safety advocates' determination to do something about travel safety this year has slowed legislation affecting the health and mortality rates of almost every citizen in America.
Or:
The Associated Press, noticing a fall-off in ginned up outrage, toss teabaggers a bone.
What a ridiculous zero-sum construct that adds nothing to the debate. Any issue can be presented as crowding out another, and they're all important to some degree to (usually) a large amount of people.
Hell, just imagine what today's Associated Press would have come up with on December 8, 1941:
President Roosevelt's monomaniacal rush to respond, willy-nilly, to the Japanese visit to Pearl Harbor has slowed key legislation essential to cotton subsidies.
Pick a date or pick an issue and see if you can out-AP the AP!