{"id":701113,"date":"2010-03-25T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.33514"},"modified":"2010-03-25T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:44:49","slug":"senate-passes-health-care-companion-measure-56-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/701113","title":{"rendered":"Senate passes health care companion measure 56-43"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;The Senate on Thursday passed a bill making certain &#8220;fixes&#8221; to the health care bill Obama signed into law on Tuesday, with just one more vote&#8211;in the House&#8211;needed before the legislation is complete.<\/p>\n<p>Many House Democrats voted for the bill Sunday on the strength of a pledge by the Senate to immediately rewrite portions of new legislation to make it amenable to the House. This process&#8211;called reconciliation&#8212;yielded a 56 to 43 Senate roll call. No Republicans voted for the &#8220;reconciliation&#8221; package and three Democrats were no votes&#8212;Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska,and  both Arkansas senators, Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;The Senate on Thursday passed a bill making certain &#8220;fixes&#8221; to the health care bill Obama signed into law on Tuesday, with just one more vote&#8211;in the House&#8211;needed before the legislation is complete. Many House Democrats voted for the bill Sunday on the strength of a pledge by the Senate to immediately rewrite portions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2683,"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-701113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Woh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701113","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\/2683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}