{"id":386562,"date":"2010-03-03T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.32547"},"modified":"2010-03-03T14:16:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:16:40","slug":"obama-calls-for-simple-majority-health-care-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/386562","title":{"rendered":"Obama calls for &#8220;simple majority&#8221; health care vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;President Obama on Wednesday called for Democrats to pass health care with the controversial legislative manuever known as reconciliation. That means in the Senate a simple majority, 51 votes would be needed instead of a filibuster-proof 60 votes and the Democrats could move a bill without needing any GOP support.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Murphy over at PoliticsDaily.com explains how reconciliation tactics could work. Read her report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/03\/03\/democrats-know-theres-no-easy-path-for-health-care\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;President Obama on Wednesday called for Democrats to pass health care with the controversial legislative manuever known as reconciliation. That means in the Senate a simple majority, 51 votes would be needed instead of a filibuster-proof 60 votes and the Democrats could move a bill without needing any GOP support. Patricia Murphy over at PoliticsDaily.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386562","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\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}