{"id":490186,"date":"2010-03-30T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=22129"},"modified":"2010-03-30T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:00:20","slug":"the-hill-gop-senators-say-they-can-work-with-dems-despite-healthcare-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/490186","title":{"rendered":"The Hill:  GOP senators say they can work with Dems despite healthcare battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Republican senators say they can work with Democrats,  despite dire  predictions that the healthcare fight would make  cooperation  impossible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, this story from <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/89729-senators-say-they-can-still-work-together-despite-divisive-healthcare-battle\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/a> isn&#8217;t a big shock.\u00a0 But once again, John McCain proved how out of touch he is:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-22129\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned that using reconciliation to block a  GOP filibuster and pass healthcare legislation could destroy the fabric  of the Senate, but the explosion that some insiders expected never  happened.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now Republican centrists say they are willing to move forward with  Democrats on other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine), the Republican that Democratic leaders  consider most likely to join them on future initiatives, says she is  still willing to work across the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), who is negotiating with Democrats on  energy and immigration reform legislation, has said he will not cut off  talks because of the controversial use of reconciliation, which allowed  Democrats to move a package of fixes to the healthcare legislation with  majority-only votes.<\/p>\n<p>The working order of the Senate appears to have emerged intact.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Duh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican senators say they can work with Democrats, despite dire predictions that the healthcare fight would make cooperation impossible. Okay, this story from The Hill isn&#8217;t a big shock.\u00a0 But once again, John McCain proved how out of touch he is: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned that using reconciliation to block a GOP filibuster and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490186","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\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}