{"id":3285,"date":"2010-01-20T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T16:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2010-01-20T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T16:46:11","slug":"senate-democrat-wants-to-pause-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3285\/senate-democrat-wants-to-pause-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrat Wants to Pause Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) has recommended that Democrats hold off on any health care votes until Senator-elect Scott Brown can be seated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0110\/On_to_Plan_C.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Webb stated<\/span><\/a>, \u201cI believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/special\/politics\/2010\/senate\/results.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">margin of victory<\/span><\/a> of more than 100,000 votes and a concession speech from his opponent, Martha Coakley, Brown should have no trouble arguing that the race is settled.\u00a0  Now, it\u2019s up to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to honor the will of her fellow Democrats and the voters of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) has recommended that Democrats hold off on any health care votes until Senator-elect Scott Brown can be seated. Webb stated, \u201cI believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated.\u201d With a margin of victory of more than [&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":[77,753,111,725],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-harry-reid","tag-martha-coakley","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-scott-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","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=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}