{"id":2872,"date":"2009-12-24T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2009-12-24T12:09:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T17:09:13","slug":"merry-christmas-america-the-senate-passes-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2872\/merry-christmas-america-the-senate-passes-health-care-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas America!  The Senate Passes Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/12\/24\/health.care\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">United States Senate passed its version of health care \u201creform\u201d legislation<\/a>.\u00a0 Though Congress won\u2019t be back in session until January 18<sup>th<\/sup>, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be discussing ways to reconcile the bills so they can get it to President Obama for his signature.\u00a0 In a departure from the go-go pace of the last two weeks, there are signs that the legislation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2009\/12\/23\/politics\/politicalhotsheet\/entry6014693.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">may not become law until February<\/a> of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Since an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/obama_and_democrats_health_care_plan-1130.html\" target=\"_blank\">overwhelming majority of voters oppose<\/a> either version of the plan, Democrats are leaving themselves open to serious opposition over the holidays; especially since media outlets and activist groups will have time to comb through the bills and highlight the waste and corruption tucked away in each.\u00a0 For CFIF and its supporters, the fight continues!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning, the United States Senate passed its version of health care \u201creform\u201d legislation.\u00a0 Though Congress won\u2019t be back in session until January 18th, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be discussing ways to reconcile the bills so they can get it to President Obama for his signature.\u00a0 In [&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":[143,77,465,111],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care-reform","tag-nancy-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","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=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}