{"id":491879,"date":"2010-03-30T23:01:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T03:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=12371"},"modified":"2010-03-30T23:01:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T03:01:17","slug":"pennsylvania-governor-latest-politician-to-offer-help-defending-healthcare-act-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/491879","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Governor Latest Politician To Offer Help Defending Healthcare Act In Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_image\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/US+Capitol+_1961_19695445_0_0_7764_300.jpg\" alt=\"Pennsylvania governor latest politician to offer help defending healthcare act in court\" align=\"right\" \/>Despite the fact that dozens of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit last week to overturn the recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, there are many politicians, mainly on the Left, who have vowed to defend the healthcare bill. <\/p>\n<p>Among them is Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, who signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, in which he and the governors of Washington, Michigan and Colorado offer to do just that. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We believe the legal efforts [of those who seek to overturn the bill] will fail in court, unnecessarily delay the urgent need to get our citizens access to healthcare and waste our state tax dollars,&quot; Rendell and others wrote. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;As you prepare and deliver your defense of this landmark legislation, you have our commitment to work with you, at your request, to assist in this effort,&quot; they added. <\/p>\n<p>The act was passed by the House of Representatives on March 21, and signed by President Obama two days later, although there was another vote after the Senate failed to pass two amendments to the reconciliation package. To date, at least 14 state attorneys general joined the lawsuit filed in a federal court in Florida by that state&#8217;s chief prosecutor Attorney General Bill McCollum. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19695445-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&#038;itemid=19695445\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that dozens of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit last week to overturn the recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, there are many politicians, mainly on the Left, who have vowed to defend the healthcare bill. Among them is Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, who signed a letter to U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491879","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\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}