Still, federal changes won't happen until 2009 at the earliest.

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But widespread personnel changes won't happen yet, said Jones.

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John Glenn, the committee's ranking Democrat, said the inquiry "had the potential to be a catalyst for a public uproar" to force legislative changes, but that didn't happen.

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Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps has told the BBC he "hasn't given up hope" changes to constituency boundaries will happen.

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The most profound changes, the most dynamic innovations, they don't happen from the top down -- they happen from the bottom up.

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Mr. Ryan, continuing his push, said later that Republicans had to do a better job of explaining to Americans what would happen to Medicare and Medicaid if big changes weren't made.

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But under the rules that brought the bill to the Senate floor tonight, the unanimous consent of the Senate would have been needed to make any changes, which, Democrats made clear, wasn't going to happen.

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