{"id":205275,"date":"2010-01-20T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:business.theatlantic.com,2010:\/\/3.33846"},"modified":"2010-01-20T12:18:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T17:18:01","slug":"will-a-jobs-bill-will-be-easier-than-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/205275","title":{"rendered":"Will a Jobs Bill Will Be Easier Than Health Care Reform?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Brown’s Massachusetts victory means that if the House doesn’t pass the Senate version of health care stat<\/i>, the Democratic Party will have to look somewhere else to build momentum for their agenda. Brian Beutler listens<\/a> to their plans:<\/p>\n

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So what’s next for the Senate? Leaders and rank and file members say: Jobs, jobs, jobs.<\/p>\n

“The country is speaking to us, and we will show we hear them in the
\nagenda we pursue over the next year,” reads a statement from Sen. Chuck
\nSchumer (D-NY) to TPMDC. “Our focus must be on jobs, the economy and
\ndelivering for the middle class.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don’t entirely understand the logic behind this.<\/p>\n

One week ago, the jobs stimulus bill was on life support<\/a>,
\nand the health care bill was basically a fait accompli. About one in
\nsix House Democrats didn’t vote for the jobs bill in December. That’s
\nbasically the same as health care reform. A handful of Senate Democrats
\nhave said they won’t vote for the jobs bill because it will increase
\nthe deficit. Health care has (or at least had) 59 senators behind it.
\nWhat’s more, there’s no indication that Republicans are willing to work
\nwith Democrats on a jobs bill that sends tens of billions of dollars to
\nbail out state payrolls. What exactly about this issue strikes
\nDemocratic leaders as a logical “check-down” if they turn away from
\nhealth care?


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Scott Brown’s Massachusetts victory means that if the House doesn’t pass the Senate version of health care stat, the Democratic Party will have to look somewhere else to build momentum for their agenda. Brian Beutler listens to their plans: So what’s next for the Senate? Leaders and rank and file members say: Jobs, jobs, jobs. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}