{"id":667271,"date":"2010-02-17T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76839"},"modified":"2010-02-17T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T18:35:00","slug":"another-dem-senator-hopping-on-the-reconciliation-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/667271","title":{"rendered":"Another Dem Senator Hopping on the Reconciliation Train?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Democrats in the Senate have <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/health-care\/four-more-dem-senators-join-push-for-vote-on-public-option\/\">signed a letter<\/a> pushing for a majority-rules reconciliation vote on a health care bill that includes a public insurance option. Now it looks like there might be a ninth one coming on board.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa Independent <a href=\"http:\/\/iowaindependent.com\/28024\/fellow-dem-says-harkin-supports-health-care-reconciliation\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Several sources, including a a former state lawmaker running against  Republican U.S. Sen.<a href=\"http:\/\/iowaindependent.com\/28024\/iowaindependent.com\/tag\/chuck-grassley\"> Chuck Grassley<\/a>, say [Sen. Tom] Harkin was adamant in his support of using  reconciliation to pass health care reform when he addressed a recent  closed-door gathering of state Democratic leaders, although he is  remaining quiet on the current push by his senate colleagues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Democrats in the Senate have signed a letter pushing for a majority-rules reconciliation vote on a health care bill that includes a public insurance option. Now it looks like there might be a ninth one coming on board. The Iowa Independent reports: Several sources, including a a former state lawmaker running against Republican U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NAr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}