{"id":452323,"date":"2010-03-20T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74114"},"modified":"2010-03-20T19:00:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:00:23","slug":"jim-matheson-to-vote-no-on-health-care-%e2%80%93-204-yes-207-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/452323","title":{"rendered":"Jim Matheson to Vote No on Health Care \u2013 204 Yes, 207 No"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_73928\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 280px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/204v1_LeoReynolds-Flickr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73928\" title=\"204v1_LeoReynolds-Flickr\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/204v1_LeoReynolds-Flickr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: Leo Reynolds via Flickr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Another setback for Democratic leaders: Jim Matheson (D-UT) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/ci_14719178\">will vote no<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<div>\n<p>Matheson, a conservative Democrat and  leader of the Blue Dog caucus, said he is convinced the massive $940  billion bill would \u201cleave our nation worse off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am saddened that the year-long debate on health reform has  resulted in legislation that is too expensive, contains too many special  deals, does not contain health care costs and will result in increases  in health insurance premiums and therefore I will vote against the  legislation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for Matheson being bribed by his brother being given a  federal judgeship.<\/p>\n<p>That makes it 207 No votes and 204 Yes votes.  Ten are still  undecided, and ten are potentially part of the Stupak bloc.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers:<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=74114&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_74114\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo: Leo Reynolds via Flickr Another setback for Democratic leaders: Jim Matheson (D-UT) will vote no. Matheson, a conservative Democrat and leader of the Blue Dog caucus, said he is convinced the massive $940 billion bill would \u201cleave our nation worse off.\u201d \u201cI am saddened that the year-long debate on health reform has resulted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452323","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\/4406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}