Representative Mike Ross, Democrat of Arkansas, the point man for the Blue Dogs on health care, said they had not decided whether to accept or counter the proposals or just "keep talking".
Before the meeting, Peter Morgan, who was due to chair the session, said residents did not think that the 28-day consultation period gave them enough time to counter the proposals.
One First Nations community has countered the proposal with a demonstration of the alternative.
But Republicans said Democrats had yet to counter the Republican proposal.
The news came only hours after wide receiver Steve Smith surprised the team by signing a one-year deal with the Eagles, touching off a brief controversy about whether the Giants were given a fair chance to counter the Eagles' proposal.
So as the Nats went about rebuilding their roster, most prominently signing left-hander Patrick Corbin to a six-year, $140-million deal, Harper's camp didn't counter the original proposal.
Any day now a House study group appointed by Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia is expected to complete a bill to counter the existing proposals, which many Republicans consider too radical, too regulatory and too likely to stoke frivolous lawsuits.
Our conversations were brief and predictable: I would invite him to break his Ramadan fast at a public restaurant in Kilis, and he would counter with the proposal of a home-cooked meal in Syria.
To counter the Congress housing project proposal, the B.J.P. said in August that it would construct 6,500 affordable houses and immediately revived the long-defunct Gujarat Housing Board.
To counter the contention that its proposal was a step backwards, America inserted language that allowed for the possibility of higher standards being imposed in future.But those arguments did not impress.
