{"id":682731,"date":"2010-03-04T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78430"},"modified":"2010-03-04T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:06:28","slug":"introducing-twi%e2%80%99s-senate-public-option-reconciliation-scoreboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682731","title":{"rendered":"Introducing TWI\u2019s Senate Public Option Reconciliation Scoreboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the heat of the public option debate last fall, TWI created a scoreboard to track each senator&#8217;s position on a government insurance plan to compete with private insurers. Ultimately, Senate Democrats determined that they just couldn&#8217;t muster the necessary 60 votes for a bill with a public option, and so they passed legislation without one.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the public option is back, and so is <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/67485\/senate-public-option-scoreboard-2\">our scoreboard<\/a>. This time, the debate centers on the possibility of passing a bill with a public option through budget reconciliation rules, which require only 50 votes for passage. The <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/67485\/senate-public-option-scoreboard-2\">Senate Public Option Reconciliation Scoreboard<\/a> lists every senator&#8217;s stance on both the public option itself and the reconciliation route to passage. <span id=\"more-78430\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sure, the odds of a public option are still remote. But with a tremendous amount of uncertainty surrounding the health care debate in the House and Senate, the idea is gaining some ground.<\/p>\n<p>So be sure to stop by the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/67485\/senate-public-option-scoreboard-2\">scoreboard<\/a> daily to get the latest updates on the status of the public option in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the heat of the public option debate last fall, TWI created a scoreboard to track each senator&#8217;s position on a government insurance plan to compete with private insurers. Ultimately, Senate Democrats determined that they just couldn&#8217;t muster the necessary 60 votes for a bill with a public option, and so they passed legislation [&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-682731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RBN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682731","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=682731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}