{"id":3559,"date":"2010-02-01T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2010-02-01T16:47:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T21:47:14","slug":"virginia-senate-says-%e2%80%9cno%e2%80%9d-to-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3559\/virginia-senate-says-%e2%80%9cno%e2%80%9d-to-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Senate Says \u201cNo\u201d to ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia is now one of many states pushing through a <a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB283E\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">legislative response<\/span><\/a> to complete federal control of health care.\u00a0 Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/leg1.state.va.us\/cgi-bin\/legp504.exe?101+vot+SV0140SB0283+SB0283\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">23 Virginia Senators<\/span><\/a> voted to exempt the Commonwealth from ObamaCare\u2019s individual health insurance mandate.\u00a0  Five Democrats joined all 18 Republicans to enact the measure in the Democratic-controlled Senate.<\/p>\n<p>If President Obama&#8217;s health care bill does come back to life in the U.S. Congress, it appears that more states will follow Virginia&#8217;s lead to fight ObamaCare locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia is now one of many states pushing through a legislative response to complete federal control of health care.\u00a0 Today, 23 Virginia Senators voted to exempt the Commonwealth from ObamaCare\u2019s individual health insurance mandate.\u00a0 Five Democrats joined all 18 Republicans to enact the measure in the Democratic-controlled Senate. If President Obama&#8217;s health care bill does [&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":[12,311,35,14,704],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-individual-mandate","tag-obamacare","tag-president-obama","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","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=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}