{"id":41585,"date":"2009-11-13T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"4ee22dd1-fa82-4274-b867-43948292bb66"},"modified":"2009-11-13T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T19:45:00","slug":"majority-leader-reid-still-aims-to-bring-health-bill-to-senate-floor-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/41585","title":{"rendered":"Majority Leader Reid Still Aims To Bring Health Bill To Senate Floor Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continues to aim\u00a0to get a health care reform bill to the floor next week, his spokeswoman said Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/reid-aims-to-bring-up-health-bill-next-week-2009-11-13\" >MarketWatch<\/a> reports. &#8220;No date has been set to bring the bill to the floor for debate, she said, adding that Reid wants to bring it up &#8216;as soon as we can.'&#8221; In the meantime, Health Care for America Now has begun running ads urging Senators in Arkansas and Nebraska to let senators begin debate on the bill. &#8220;Sens. Blanche Lincoln, Democrat of Arkansas, and Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, haven&#8217;t yet agreed to let the bill come up for debate&#8221; (Schroeder, 11\/13). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/livepulse\/1109\/Reconciliation_could_kill_Stupak_rider.html\" >Politico<\/a> reports that Democrats are likely to kill the anti-abortion Stupak amendment that was attached to the House health care reform bill &#8220;if they go to Plan B on passing health care \u2014 using a filibuster-proof reconciliation bill \u2014 budget experts say.&#8221; Democrats would likely only use reconciliation if they fail to get close to the 60 votes they need to pass a health care reform bill. Using reconciliation &#8220;would require a bare majority but limit the scope of what policies can be adopted&#8221; (Allen, 11\/13).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/sq0FgBKBcPw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continues to aim\u00a0to get a health care reform bill to the floor next week, his spokeswoman said Friday, MarketWatch reports. &#8220;No date has been set to bring the bill to the floor for debate, she said, adding that Reid wants to bring it up &#8216;as soon as we can.&#8217;&#8221; In [&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-41585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41585","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=41585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}