{"id":306814,"date":"2010-02-11T07:45:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/02\/11\/garrett-ignores-gop-influence-in-current-health-care-legislation-to-say-obama-will-start-incorporating-gop-ideas\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T07:45:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:45:53","slug":"garrett-ignores-gop-influence-in-current-health-care-legislation-to-say-obama-will-%e2%80%9cstart%e2%80%9d-incorporating-gop-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/306814","title":{"rendered":"Garrett ignores GOP influence in current health care legislation to say Obama will \u201cstart\u201d incorporating GOP ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~r\/mediamatters\/latest\/~3\/6jw109W-Q2s\/201002100034\" >Garrett ignores GOP influence in current health care legislation to say Obama will &#8220;start&#8221; incorporating GOP ideas <\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Fox News&#8217;&nbsp;<em>America&#8217;s Newsroom<\/em>, Major Garrett said&nbsp;President&nbsp;Obama indicated during a press conference he &#8220;will start talking to Republicans and incorporating their ideas in the health care debate.&#8221; In fact,&nbsp;as Obama recently indicated during his January 29 question and answer session with House Republicans,&nbsp;several GOP ideas have been incorporated into the current health care bill.<\/p>\n<p>From the February 10 edition of&nbsp;<em>America&#8217;s Newsroom<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>GARRETT: The question I asked was about health care reform and whether or not the House and Senate bills that the president was once so proud of in fact could pass. He conceded the Republicans&#8217; point that they couldn&#8217;t, and though he said he wouldn&#8217;t start from scratch, he will start talking to Republicans and incorporating their ideas in the health care debate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Obama&nbsp;at House GOP Q &amp; A: &#8220;I have&#8221; accepted GOP ideas in bill<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Obama: &#8220;[W]hen you say I ought to be willing to accept Republican ideas on health care, let&#8217;s be clear: I have.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong>During Obama&#8217;s question-and-answer period of his House GOP retreat visit on&nbsp;<a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fthe-press-office%2Fremarks-president-gop-house-issues-conference\">7\/09<\/a>]. And according to the Senate Finance Committee&#8217;s&nbsp;<a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Ffinance.senate.gov%2Fsitepages%2Fleg%2FLEG%25202009%2F102009%2520America%2527s%2520Healthy%2520Future%2520Act%2520Markup%2520Results.pdf\">document<\/a>&nbsp;detailing the amendments to the Chairman&#8217;s Mark considered, at least 13 amendments sponsored by one or more Republican senators were included in the bill.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\"> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?a=6jw109W-Q2s:2PzBWNWKQaI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?a=6jw109W-Q2s:2PzBWNWKQaI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?i=6jw109W-Q2s:2PzBWNWKQaI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?a=6jw109W-Q2s:2PzBWNWKQaI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?a=6jw109W-Q2s:2PzBWNWKQaI:l6gmwiTKsz0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?d=l6gmwiTKsz0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?a=6jw109W-Q2s:2PzBWNWKQaI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mediamatters\/latest?i=6jw109W-Q2s:2PzBWNWKQaI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/mediamatters\/latest\/~4\/6jw109W-Q2s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garrett ignores GOP influence in current health care legislation to say Obama will &#8220;start&#8221; incorporating GOP ideas On Fox News&#8217;&nbsp;America&#8217;s Newsroom, Major Garrett said&nbsp;President&nbsp;Obama indicated during a press conference he &#8220;will start talking to Republicans and incorporating their ideas in the health care debate.&#8221; In fact,&nbsp;as Obama recently indicated during his January 29 question and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306814","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\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}