{"id":2507,"date":"2009-12-07T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T15:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2009-12-07T10:17:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T15:17:48","slug":"senate-votes-for-trial-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2507\/senate-votes-for-trial-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Votes for Trial Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate, currently debating health care, held a rare Sunday session.\u00a0  Beyond the normal bloviating, Senators did take at least one consequential vote.<\/p>\n<p>John Ensign (R-NV) introduced an amendment that would have limited <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/F?r111:1:.\/temp\/~r111SyjUF2:e4042:\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">trial lawyer contingency fee<\/span><\/a> amounts in medical malpractice cases.\u00a0  Predictably, the amendment was overwhelmingly voted down, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00366\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">32-66<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the trial lawyer lobby remains strong in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate, currently debating health care, held a rare Sunday session.\u00a0 Beyond the normal bloviating, Senators did take at least one consequential vote. John Ensign (R-NV) introduced an amendment that would have limited trial lawyer contingency fee amounts in medical malpractice cases.\u00a0 Predictably, the amendment was overwhelmingly voted down, 32-66. It appears that the trial [&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":[12,594,38,595],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-john-ensign","tag-senate","tag-trial-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","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=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}