The on-going saga of CLASS, the unworkable long-term care program that is part of the 2010 health care reform law, continued yesterday when the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 33-17 to repeal it. Three Democrats joined every Republican in a bipartisan vote.

The administration shuttered the program after determining it couldn't work. The bill that cleared the committee would ensure that it doesn't rise up from the dead.

The bill now goes to the full House of Representatives for a vote.