Following a day of fanfare at the White House over a new law on health reform, Senate Republicans are letting Washington, D.C., know that the party is over.

While no one is ready to declare that health reform initiatives being weighed by Congress are dead, Democrats and Republicans have very differing views of the condition of one final piece of comprehensive legislation.

At least nine Republican attorneys general, including Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett, are questioning the legality of a compromise on Nebraska’s Medicaid payments that enabled the U.S. Senate’s health care reform bill to win approval.