{"id":1826,"date":"2009-11-04T17:18:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T22:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2009-11-04T17:36:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T22:36:33","slug":"house-set-for-saturday-night-vote-on-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1826\/house-set-for-saturday-night-vote-on-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"House Vote on ObamaCare Set for Saturday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/04\/health_care_vote_this_weekend.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced today<\/a> that\u00a0a vote on Speaker Pelosi\u2019s version of health care \u201creform\u201d will be held on Saturday night at 6:00, likely when few people are watching.\u00a0 It is, after all, still college football season.<\/p>\n<p>If the vote succeeds, the House will recess next week and then the ball will be in Senator Harry Reid\u2019s court to pass the Senate&#8217;s version of reform. If Reid succeeds, the House and the Senate would meet in conference to reconcile the different provisions in each bill.<\/p>\n<p>During the vote this weekend, the House will also likely vote on a new Republican alternative to ObamaCare.\u00a0 The Republican bill, 971 pages shorter than ObamaCare, contains provisions that allow consumers to shop across state lines for health insurance.\u00a0 The Republican alternative also allows small businesses to pool their health plans with other businesses, in an effort to drive down costs.\u00a0 You can read the alternative to ObamaCare <a href=\"http:\/\/rules-republicans.house.gov\/Media\/PDF\/RepublicanAlternative3962_9.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to call your representative this week at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u201cNo\u201d<\/strong><\/span> on <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.loc.gov\/loc.uscongress\/legislation.111hr3962\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">H.R. 3962<\/span><\/a>, Speaker Pelosi\u2019s government-takeover of our health care system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats announced today that\u00a0a vote on Speaker Pelosi\u2019s version of health care \u201creform\u201d will be held on Saturday night at 6:00, likely when few people are watching.\u00a0 It is, after all, still college football season. If the vote succeeds, the House will recess next week and then the ball will be in Senator Harry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,12,35,36],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care","tag-obamacare","tag-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}