{"id":1985,"date":"2009-11-10T14:33:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T19:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2009-11-12T14:21:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T19:21:37","slug":"reid-senate-health-care-debate-to-begin-as-early-as-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1985\/reid-senate-health-care-debate-to-begin-as-early-as-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid: Senate Health Care Debate to Begin As Early As Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With pressure coming from the White House and not to be outdone by Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Harry Reid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/40501-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">indicated earlier today<\/a> that the Senate could begin debate on his health care \u201creform\u201d bill as early as next week.\u00a0 Reid believes a final vote on the legislation could happen by Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s an ambitious schedule considering that Reid\u2019s bill hasn\u2019t even been presented to his Senate colleagues yet, much less to the American people.\u00a0\u00a0 The Majority Leader has been waiting for the Congressional Budget Office to finish its cost estimates on various versions of his \u201creform\u201d proposal prior to deciding what the final product will look like and releasing it for review.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Reid has his hands full trying to find the 60 votes necessary to proceed to a vote on health care \u201creform\u201d in the Senate as liberals and so-called moderates in his caucus\u00a0are divided on issues such as taxpayer funding for abortion and a government-run \u201cpublic option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Hill <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/67303-reid-puts-house-healthcare-bill-on-senate-calendar\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) late Tuesday laid the groundwork for the Senate&#8217;s healthcare reform debate to start next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Reid filed a motion to introduce the bill on Monday, Nov. 16. Anticipating a Republican objection, the bill would be pushed onto the Senate calendar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A motion to proceed to the bill would be in order the next legislative day,&#8221; said Reid spokesman Jim Manley.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With pressure coming from the White House and not to be outdone by Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated earlier today that the Senate could begin debate on his health care \u201creform\u201d bill as early as next week.\u00a0 Reid believes a final vote on the legislation could happen by Christmas. That\u2019s an ambitious schedule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,12],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}