{"id":2247,"date":"2009-11-20T14:08:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T19:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2009-11-20T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T22:00:32","slug":"bad-news-on-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2247\/bad-news-on-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News on Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator Ben Nelson, a key conservative Democrat, has announced that he will vote \u201cyea\u201d on the motion to proceed tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Part of his statement<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n

This weekend, I will vote for the motion to proceed to bring that debate onto the Senate floor. The Senate should start trying to fix a health care system that costs too much and delivers too little for Nebraskans.<\/p>\n

Throughout my Senate career I have consistently rejected efforts to obstruct. That’s what the vote on the motion to proceed is all about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to Politico<\/span><\/a>, this means that the health care bill will likely make it through its first procedural hurdle.\u00a0 Senator Nelson cited the ability to amend the bill as a reason for his “yea” vote tomorrow, but unless he removes the tax increases, the mandates, the government-run public option, and the thousands of new federal regulations, then any attempt to \u201camend\u201d the bill will be pointless.<\/p>\n

Given his public statement, it\u2019s unlikely that Senator Nelson\u2019s position will change in the next 24 hours, but if you live in Nebraska you can still give him a call and urge him to oppose the Senate\u2019s health care bill.<\/p>\n

D.C. Office: 202-224-6551
\nKearney Office: 308-293-5918
\nLincoln Office: 402-441-4600
\nOmaha Office: 402-391-3411<\/p>\n

You can also call Congress at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote \u201cNo\u201d<\/strong><\/span> on tomorrow night\u2019s cloture motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senator Ben Nelson, a key conservative Democrat, has announced that he will vote \u201cyea\u201d on the motion to proceed tomorrow. Part of his statement: This weekend, I will vote for the motion to proceed to bring that debate onto the Senate floor. The Senate should start trying to fix a health care system that costs […]<\/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":[531,12,38],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-ben-nelson","tag-health-care","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","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=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}