{"id":456955,"date":"2010-03-21T23:41:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74395"},"modified":"2010-03-21T23:43:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:43:36","slug":"dodd-takes-the-long-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/456955","title":{"rendered":"Dodd takes the long view"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; \"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">&#8220;The fight for health care reform has lasted nearly a century and frustrated Presidents and legislators of both parties,&#8221; U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd said in a statement following tonight&#8217;s vote in the House.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; \">&#8220;But tonight, at long last, we have won this fight on behalf of the American people. This vote makes it clear that scare tactics and the special interests are no match for the call of history and the need for change.&nbsp; No matter who they are or where they live or what they do for a living or have in the bank, every American family deserves good health care.&nbsp; And, with this historic legislation, they will be able to get it.&#8221;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"'Times New Roman', serif\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The fight for health care reform has lasted nearly a century and frustrated Presidents and legislators of both parties,&#8221; U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd said in a statement following tonight&#8217;s vote in the House. &#8220;But tonight, at long last, we have won this fight on behalf of the American people. This vote makes it clear that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456955","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\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}