{"id":692649,"date":"2010-03-16T14:48:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T18:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79394"},"modified":"2010-03-16T14:48:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T18:48:48","slug":"republicans-fret-about-%e2%80%98slaughter-option%e2%80%99-ask-for-%e2%80%98up-or-down-vote%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/692649","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Fret About \u2018Slaughter Option,\u2019 Ask for \u2018Up-or-Down Vote\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have <a href=\"http:\/\/republicanleader.house.gov\/blog\/?p=796\">grabbed hold of reports<\/a> that Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) has readied a rule that would allow the House to deem the Senate health care bill passed and start making corrections &#8212; something the GOP quickly dubbed the &#8220;Slaughter Option&#8221; or the &#8220;Slaughter Solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[W]e are hearing reports that the Majority will try and ram this through without a direct vote on the Senate bill,&#8221; said GOP Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) in a floor speech. &#8220;Madam Speaker, we should take an up-or-down vote on the Senate bill. I yield back.\u201d<span id=\"more-79394\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That language &#8212; &#8220;take an up-or-down vote&#8221; &#8212; belonged to Democrats just a few days ago, when they were spinning the use of reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have grabbed hold of reports that Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) has readied a rule that would allow the House to deem the Senate health care bill passed and start making corrections &#8212; something the GOP quickly dubbed the &#8220;Slaughter Option&#8221; or the &#8220;Slaughter Solution.&#8221; &#8220;[W]e are hearing reports that the Majority will try and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"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-692649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UbL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692649","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\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}