{"id":420551,"date":"2010-03-12T12:09:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79111"},"modified":"2010-03-12T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:09:01","slug":"liberal-groups-%e2%80%98fate-of-the-public-option-is-now-in-nancy-pelosi%e2%80%99s-hands%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/420551","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Groups: \u2018Fate of the Public Option Is Now in Nancy Pelosi\u2019s Hands\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) caused quite a stir this week when he suggested<\/a> that he’d urge liberal Democrats to vote against any amendments to the health care reform bill sent over from the House — even provisions like the public option<\/a> that a vast majority of the Democratic caucus supports.<\/p>\n

Last night, in a statement to liberal groups, the office of the Illinois Democrat clarified: “Sen. Durbin and the rest of the Senate Leadership will be aggressively whipping FOR the public option if it is included in the reconciliation bill the House sends over.”<\/span><\/p>\n

That, according to those same liberal groups, puts “the\u00a0fate of the public option … in Nancy Pelosi’s hands.” From the statement issued this morning by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America and Credo Action:<\/p>\n

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The votes and the leadership are there in the Senate, and the public option will live or die based on Nancy Pelosi’s next moves. She’s been a hero on this issue in the past, and we hope that she steps up at this historic moment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This creates a fascinating new dynamic, not least of all because Pelosi has never wavered<\/a> in her support for the public option. Indeed, unlike the Senate health reform proposal, the House-passed bill would create one.<\/p>\n

We’ll know the outcome soon enough. The Democrats say they want to pass health care reform before the end of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) caused quite a stir this week when he suggested that he’d urge liberal Democrats to vote against any amendments to the health care reform bill sent over from the House — even provisions like the public option that a vast majority of the Democratic caucus supports. Last night, in a statement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420551","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\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}