{"id":977,"date":"2009-09-29T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T19:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=977"},"modified":"2009-09-29T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T19:08:21","slug":"senate-finance-committee-votes-against-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/977\/senate-finance-committee-votes-against-public-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Finance Committee Votes Against Public Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minutes ago the Senate Finance Committee voted against Senator Jay Rockefeller&#8217;s (WV) version of a government-run public option.\u00a0 The vote was a surprising victory for free-market advocates.\u00a0 The Rockefeller <a href=\"http:\/\/prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/29\/live-blogging-senate-finance-committee-debate-on-public-option\/?hp\" target=\"_blank\">amendment failed 8-15<\/a>, with Senators Baucus (MT), Conrad (ND), Lincoln (AR), Nelson (FL), and Carper (DE) voting against the public option.<\/p>\n<p>Call your Senators and tell them to vote &#8220;No&#8221; on a government-run public option that would result in anywhere from 80-120 million Americans losing their insurance. Here is the number: 202-224-3121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minutes ago the Senate Finance Committee voted against Senator Jay Rockefeller&#8217;s (WV) version of a government-run public option.\u00a0 The vote was a surprising victory for free-market advocates.\u00a0 The Rockefeller amendment failed 8-15, with Senators Baucus (MT), Conrad (ND), Lincoln (AR), Nelson (FL), and Carper (DE) voting against the public option. Call your Senators and tell [&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":[99,212,209,12,210,211,208],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-baucus","tag-carper","tag-conrad","tag-health-care","tag-lincoln","tag-nelson","tag-rockefeller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}