{"id":2422,"date":"2009-12-02T17:17:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T22:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2009-12-02T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T22:20:09","slug":"defeating-government-run-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2422\/defeating-government-run-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeating Government-Run Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayers are doing their part to defeat government-run health care by marching, calling Congress and urging others to get involved.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Judd Gregg, someone with direct power to defeat ObamaCare, now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/static\/PPM110_091202_minorityrights.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">has a legislative blueprint<\/span><\/a> for stopping the Senate\u2019s version of health care &#8220;reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cHard\u201d Quorum Calls \u2013 requires at least 51 Senators to be present in the Senate chamber for any substantive debate on health care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading of Amendments and Conference Reports in Entirety \u2013 with 2,000 pages to read, it would take days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Senate Points of Order \u2013 delays legislative business because the Senate is required to take two roll call votes to dispense with a point of order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Filibuster by Amendment \u2013 until Harry Reid invokes cloture, Senators may offer an unlimited number of amendments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Motion to Instruct Conferees \u2013 Senators may offer an unlimited number of motions to instruct the Senate\u2019s conferees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can do your part to defeat government-run health care by calling 202-224-3121 and telling your Senators to vote <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u201cNo\u201d<\/strong><\/span> on the Senate bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayers are doing their part to defeat government-run health care by marching, calling Congress and urging others to get involved. Senator Judd Gregg, someone with direct power to defeat ObamaCare, now has a legislative blueprint for stopping the Senate\u2019s version of health care &#8220;reform.&#8221; Among the highlights: \u201cHard\u201d Quorum Calls \u2013 requires at least 51 [&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":[518,12,576,35],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-filibuster","tag-health-care","tag-judd-gregg","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","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=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}