{"id":36975,"date":"2009-11-05T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"1e4a2124-5916-48f8-aa5e-906c23d4db1f"},"modified":"2009-11-05T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:23:00","slug":"obama-to-visit-house-dems-to-rally-support-for-saturday-health-bill-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/36975","title":{"rendered":"Obama To Visit House Dems To Rally Support For Saturday Health Bill Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a last-minute exercise of presidential hand-holding, President Obama plans to travel to Capitol Hill on Friday morning to meet with House Democrats, one day before they vote on his highest domestic priority: a bill to overhaul the nation&#8217;s health care system,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/05\/obama-courts-house-democrats-before-vote\/\" >The New York Times<\/a> reports. &#8220;White House officials said the president wanted to address any lingering doubts about the legislation in the House, where liberal Democrats are concerned that the bill&#8217;s so-called public option \u2014 a government-backed insurance plan \u2014 is too weak, and where conservative Democrats are uneasy about whether the legislation would permit federal money to be used to pay for abortion&#8221; (Stolberg, 11\/5). <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, support for the House bill could also be bolstered by the arrival of two new Democratic congressmen, <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/11\/05\/democrats-increase-majority-in-house-before-crucial-health-care-vote\/\" >CNN<\/a> reports. &#8220;Representative-elect John Garamendi [D-Calif.] will be sworn in by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday afternoon.&#8221; On Friday, &#8220;Representative-elect Bill Owens [D-N.Y.] is expected to be officially sworn in as a member of Congress.&#8221; At that point, &#8221; the House will be back at full strength, with 435 members. Thanks to their victories in Tuesday&#8217;s special elections, the Democrats will increase their majority by one, and will hold a 258 to 177 advantage in the chamber.&#8221; The tally\u00a0on Saturday is expected to\u00a0be close and 218 votes\u00a0&#8220;will be needed to pass the bill&#8221; (Steinhauser and Walsh, 11\/5).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/y0fH4mdfH88\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a last-minute exercise of presidential hand-holding, President Obama plans to travel to Capitol Hill on Friday morning to meet with House Democrats, one day before they vote on his highest domestic priority: a bill to overhaul the nation&#8217;s health care system,&#8221; The New York Times reports. &#8220;White House officials said the president wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36975","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}