{"id":91960,"date":"2009-12-21T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dems-get-60-in-late-night-healthcare-vote-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-21T06:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T11:46:00","slug":"healthcare-reform-is-one-step-closer-to-reality-after-huge-100-am-vote-gets-to-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/91960","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Reform Is One Step Closer To Reality After Huge 1:00 AM Vote Gets To 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation-and-world\/la-na-health-senate21-2009dec21,0,1920190.story\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=a537544ba3a89e49f13ee100\" border=\"0\" alt=\"harry reid tbi\" \/>The Democrats cleared a HUGE hurdle<\/a> at around 1:00 AM, when they managed to get their 60 votes together in support of healthcare reform.<\/p>\n<p>Technically it&#8217;s not the final vote, just one of these key procedural votes, but it was the one where they needed every single last member of the caucus to vote &#8216;aye.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Next step: an official vote sometime this week int he Senate, and then a reconciliation between the Senate&#8217;s version of healthcare reform and that from The House.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dems-get-60-in-late-night-healthcare-vote-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/with-healthcare-democrats-commit-unprecedented-act-of-political-suicide-2009-12\">With Healthcare, Democrats Commit Unprecedented Act Of Political Suicide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/business-news\/dec-17-youask-2009-12\">Why Does The Government Care About Healthcare When 30 Million Are Out Of Work?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/lieberman-threatens-to-go-gop-in-2012-torpedoing-all-hopes-of-getting-to-60-on-healthcare-2009-12\">Lieberman Threatens To Go GOP In 2012, Torpedoing All Hopes Of Getting To 60 On Healthcare<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/LEQponoLhdA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats cleared a HUGE hurdle at around 1:00 AM, when they managed to get their 60 votes together in support of healthcare reform. Technically it&#8217;s not the final vote, just one of these key procedural votes, but it was the one where they needed every single last member of the caucus to vote &#8216;aye.&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91960","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=91960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}