{"id":456957,"date":"2010-03-21T23:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74393"},"modified":"2010-03-21T23:13:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:13:51","slug":"simmons-rips-health-care-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/456957","title":{"rendered":"Simmons rips health care vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rob Simmons, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, said tonight’s vote will be remembered “as one of history’s worst examples of Washington thumbing its nose at the American people.”<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n


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“Rather than listen to the voters, Democrats engaged in a series of legislative tricks to force through a partisan rewriting of one-sixth of the American economy,” Simmons said in a statement. “In the face of record unemployment, shrinking family budgets and unprecedented deficit spending, Democrats have chosen to jam through a bill that will raise taxes, increase premiums and without the bill’s accounting gimmicks, raise the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars.”<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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“The American people have sent a loud and clear message to Democrats: uncontrolled spending, special back-room deals and business as usual are no longer acceptable. This November, Connecticut voters will have a choice between my vision of lower taxes, less government spending and patient-centered health care reform that controls costs, or Richard Blumenthal who will serve as a rubber stamp for Democrats’ tax and spend agenda.”<\/span><\/p>\n


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Rob Simmons, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, said tonight’s vote will be remembered “as one of history’s worst examples of Washington thumbing its nose at the American people.” “Rather than listen to the voters, Democrats engaged in a series of legislative tricks to force through a partisan rewriting of one-sixth of the American economy,” Simmons […]<\/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-456957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456957","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=456957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}