{"id":2202,"date":"2009-11-19T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2009-11-20T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T13:43:23","slug":"another-saturday-night-health-care-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2202\/another-saturday-night-health-care-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Saturday Night Health Care Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, the Senate has scheduled a midnight vote on health care, when the nation will once again be engaging in less destructive activities, like <a href=\"http:\/\/ajc.stats.com\/cfb\/head2head.asp?gamecode=200911210068&amp;home=68&amp;vis=69\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">watching college football<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Senate sources, the actual vote on cloture will take place around 8:00 this Saturday night.\u00a0  If the cloture motion garners 60 votes, then it will only take 51 Senators to pass the final version, and all indications are that Democrats have at least 55 votes to pass the health care bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate will actually begin its Saturday session in the morning, so citizens have all day to lobby against the largest government takeover of health care in history.<\/p>\n<p>You can call Congress at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u201cNo\u201d<\/strong><\/span> on the Senate\u2019s health care bill.\u00a0  Don\u2019t let moderates off of the hook. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/senator_jim_demint\/2009\/11\/18\/dont-let-them-vote-for-a-government-takeover-of-health-care-before-they-vote-against-it\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A vote for cloture<\/span><\/a> is a vote for final passage of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Indications are that at least two <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/68631-lieberman-says-he-wouldnt-be-alone-in-public-option-filibuster\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Democrats are hesitant<\/span><\/a> to support the legislation but it is up to taxpayers across the country to keep the pressure on moderate Senators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, the Senate has scheduled a midnight vote on health care, when the nation will once again be engaging in less destructive activities, like watching college football. According to Senate sources, the actual vote on cloture will take place around 8:00 this Saturday night.\u00a0 If the cloture motion garners 60 votes, then it will [&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":[507,84,12,38],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cloture","tag-congress","tag-health-care","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","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=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}