{"id":229293,"date":"2010-01-25T22:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T03:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/gop-pushes-to-seat-scott-brown-before-final-healthcare-vote\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T22:01:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T03:01:48","slug":"gop-pushes-to-seat-scott-brown-before-final-healthcare-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/229293","title":{"rendered":"GOP Pushes To Seat Scott Brown Before Final Healthcare Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Scott+Brown_1961_19571753_0_0_7051806_300.jpg\" alt=\"GOP pushes to seat Scott Brown before final healthcare vote\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">While Republicans continue to celebrate the historic Senate victory of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, conservative leaders in Washington have begun their push to get the senator-elect certified before Democrats finalize their version of the healthcare reform bill.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who represents the Republicans&#8217; 41st vote in the Senate, breaking the Democrats&#8217; filibuster-proof majority, has vowed to join the fight against the current piece of legislation being debated in Congress and &quot;send it back to the drawing board.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Although Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday confirming Brown&#8217;s victory in the special election, he cannot be seated until Massachusetts cities and towns certify the results, which they have 15 days to do, according to <em>The Boston Herald<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Brown and other conservative leaders fear that Democrats will intentionally attempt to stall the senator&#8217;s certification in an effort to pass the healthcare bill before he gets to Washington. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Pushing to let Scott Brown represent the people that elected him is a critical step in stopping this bill from becoming law,&quot; said Arizona Senator John McCain, quoted by <em>CNN<em>. <\/p>\n<p>When questioned on the possibility of attempting to stall the seating of Scott Brown in order to pass the healthcare bill, President Obama stated that &quot;the people of Massachusetts spoke. He&#8217;s got to be part of that process.&quot;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19571753-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19571753\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Republicans continue to celebrate the historic Senate victory of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, conservative leaders in Washington have begun their push to get the senator-elect certified before Democrats finalize their version of the healthcare reform bill. Brown, who represents the Republicans&#8217; 41st vote in the Senate, breaking the Democrats&#8217; filibuster-proof majority, has vowed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229293","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\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}