{"id":451305,"date":"2010-03-20T07:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/20\/tactics-on-the-hill-an-inevitable-part-of-legislative-process\/"},"modified":"2010-03-20T07:44:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:44:16","slug":"tactics-on-the-hill-an-inevitable-part-of-legislative-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/451305","title":{"rendered":"Tactics on the Hill: An inevitable part of legislative process?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=f2fd7fbd7786437396f2c86e6cecc489\" >Tactics on the Hill: An inevitable part of legislative process? \t\t\t<\/a><br \/> If House Democrats pass a health-care bill this weekend, it would be the latest step in a legislative process that has included a Saturday night vote, shortly before midnight, on the original version of the bill in November; Senate approval on Christmas Eve; and a week in which &#8220;deem and pass&#8221; and &#8220;self-executing rule&#8221; replaced &#8220;reconciliation&#8221; as the latest bit of inexplicable arcana from inside the Beltway.<br clear=\"all\"\/><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/wpni.rss\/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=12207654058\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/wpni.rss\/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=12207654058\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=f2fd7fbd7786437396f2c86e6cecc489&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=f2fd7fbd7786437396f2c86e6cecc489&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a> <!-- foo --> \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=0877cd6607be7d629a92010001e19d66\" >Experts wonder whether U.S. has a real Israel strategy or &#8216;talking points&#8217; \t\t\t<\/a><br \/> The Obama administration signaled Friday that its 10-day spat with Israel may be nearing an end, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declaring to the BBC that the confrontation &#8220;is paying off&#8221; and would lead to a resumption of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=0877cd6607be7d629a92010001e19d66&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=0877cd6607be7d629a92010001e19d66&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a> <!-- foo --> \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=7ffaea2e654ac6be321c3fcb2f3c2e20\" >Health-care legislation&#8217;s insurance subsidies prompt questions of affordability \t\t\t<\/a><br \/> The final health-care legislation that House Democrats are striving to pass this weekend would give about 19 million Americans subsidies averaging $6,000 to help pay premiums and other insurance charges, an unprecedented government investment in private health policies that leaves lingering questions about whether coverage would truly become affordable. <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=7ffaea2e654ac6be321c3fcb2f3c2e20&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=7ffaea2e654ac6be321c3fcb2f3c2e20&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a> <!-- foo --> \t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tactics on the Hill: An inevitable part of legislative process? If House Democrats pass a health-care bill this weekend, it would be the latest step in a legislative process that has included a Saturday night vote, shortly before midnight, on the original version of the bill in November; Senate approval on Christmas Eve; and a [&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-451305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451305","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=451305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}