{"id":22183,"date":"2015-01-14T14:16:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T19:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22183"},"modified":"2015-01-14T14:16:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T19:16:17","slug":"freshman-bill-cassidy-off-to-fast-start-in-u-s-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22183\/freshman-bill-cassidy-off-to-fast-start-in-u-s-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshman Bill Cassidy Off to Fast Start in U.S. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from beating Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu in a run-off last December, Republican Bill Cassidy is off to a fast start as a freshman in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Making good on his campaign promise to get rid of ObamaCare, Cassidy, a physician, has introduced two bills within just weeks of taking office.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cNo ObamaCare Mandate Act\u201d would repeal the medical device tax, the employer mandate and the individual mandate, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/229393-cassidy-targets-obamacare-with-first-legislation-in-senate\" target=\"_blank\">a report in <em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, \u201cThe Employee Health Care Protection Act\u201d would reduce benefit requirements in health insurance plans regulated by ObamaCare, giving providers more flexibility and consumers more options.<\/p>\n<p>And apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2015\/01\/bill_cassidy_delivers_first_se.html \" target=\"_blank\">Cassidy knows how to give a good speech<\/a>. In defending the Keystone XL pipeline from ideologically motivated attacks by environmentalists, Cassidy said, \u201cWe are not to be guided by our prejudice. We\u2019re not to be guided by what we want to be the case. We are to be guided by the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Usually, it\u2019s liberals who claim the mantle of science and scold conservatives for being fearful of the truth. It\u2019s good to see a conservative U.S. senator return the favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from beating Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu in a run-off last December, Republican Bill Cassidy is off to a fast start as a freshman in the U.S. Senate. Making good on his campaign promise to get rid of ObamaCare, Cassidy, a physician, has introduced two bills within just weeks of taking office. The \u201cNo ObamaCare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4642,3308,3294,526,1009,35,1001,38],"class_list":["post-22183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bill-cassidy","tag-health","tag-keystone-xl-pipeline","tag-louisiana","tag-mandate","tag-obamacare","tag-repeal","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22183","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22186,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22183\/revisions\/22186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}