WASHINGTON

Senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee clashed over whether the government can force individuals to buy health insurance, with Senate Democrats ultimately blocking a Republican effort to repeal the health care reform law enacted last year.

Debating the "mandate" issue, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the committee, said that the authority of Congress to act is "well established" in the Constitution, by prior acts of Congress and by long-standing court precedent.

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