{"id":695142,"date":"2010-03-18T18:48:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f24\/statement-press-secretary-robert-gibbs-delay-presidents-trip-41063\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T18:48:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:48:54","slug":"statement-from-press-secretary-robert-gibbs-on-the-delay-of-the-presidents-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/695142","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the Delay of the President&#8217;s Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.18.10 11:28 AM<\/p>\n<p>The President is pleased that the House has posted the health care legislation on the Internet and that a final vote is coming.<\/p>\n<p> But  since the House rules rightly provide for a 72-hour public review period, it is clear that a final vote on health insurance reform cannot take place before Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p> As a result, the President telephoned the leaders of Indonesia and Australia and told them that he must postpone his planned visits there for a later date so he can remain in Washington for this critical vote. The President expects to visit Indonesia in June.<\/p>\n<p> The President greatly regrets the delay.  Our international alliances are critical to America&amp;rsquo;s security and economic progress.  But passage of health insurance reform is of paramount importance, and the President is determined to see this battle through.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/statement-press-secretary-robert-gibbs-delay-presidents-trip\" >White House.gov Press Office Feed<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.18.10 11:28 AM The President is pleased that the House has posted the health care legislation on the Internet and that a final vote is coming. But since the House rules rightly provide for a 72-hour public review period, it is clear that a final vote on health insurance reform cannot take place before Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3489,"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-695142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UPY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695142","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\/3489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}