{"id":455950,"date":"2010-03-21T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/final-healthcare-voting-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-21T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T02:26:00","slug":"house-votes-219-212-to-pass-historic-national-healthcare-bill-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/455950","title":{"rendered":"House Votes 219-212 To Pass Historic National Healthcare Bill In America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4ba6da887f8b9af87e190e00-316-237\/healthcare-voting-cspan.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"healthcare voting cspan\" width=\"316\" height=\"237\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The time for debate is over. Voting shall begin any minute now.<\/p>\n<p>As of 10:27 on Sunday night, Nancy Pelosi is giving her Oscar speech, so no voting until that happens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:32<\/strong>: The voting on the first (huge) vote has begun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:39<\/strong>: They&#8217;re sill not there yet. The YEAs are at 194.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:42<\/strong>: And they&#8217;re at 208 with ostensibly just 4 minutes to go. They still need 8 more votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:43<\/strong>: There are 16 Democrats who haven&#8217;t voted, and the Democrats need 7 of them to vote YEA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:44<\/strong>: 214!<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:45<\/strong>: 216! That&#8217;s the magic number folks! Democrats are chanting &#8220;Yes We Did!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00<\/strong>: They&#8217;re now debating on &#8220;motion to recommit&#8221; put forth by the GOP &#8212; it&#8217;s essentially a poison pill, with the idea of forcing pro-life Democrats to vote &#8220;NAY&#8221; on a pro-life amendment that would derail the process. Bart Stupak is arguing forcefully against it, calling it &#8220;disingenuous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:08<\/strong>: The Democrats easily are defeating the motion to recommit. Barring some last-minute weak knees in the 9:22 left remaining for voting, this is over.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:11<\/strong> Curious how your Congressman voted? <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2010\/roll165.xml\">Check here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:18<\/strong>: And the Republican motion goes down easily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:19<\/strong>: And now the final &#8220;reconciliation&#8221; vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:36<\/strong>: And the reconciliation bill just passed. Apparently they&#8217;re taking a vote on the 65th anniversary on the battle of Iwo Jima right now. Game over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/final-healthcare-voting-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/LyqcJzx3nWI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time for debate is over. Voting shall begin any minute now. As of 10:27 on Sunday night, Nancy Pelosi is giving her Oscar speech, so no voting until that happens. 10:32: The voting on the first (huge) vote has begun. 10:39: They&#8217;re sill not there yet. The YEAs are at 194. 10:42: And they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455950","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=455950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}