{"id":712785,"date":"2010-04-09T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81757"},"modified":"2010-04-09T09:57:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:57:17","slug":"levin-expresses-%e2%80%98regret%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98respect%e2%80%99-over-stupak-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/712785","title":{"rendered":"Levin Expresses \u2018Regret\u2019 and \u2018Respect\u2019 Over Stupak Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just released from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bart Stupak is a public servant of great integrity and genuine conscience.\u00a0 I deeply regret his decision from a public perspective, but I also respect and understand his decision because of the longevity of his service and the tremendous sacrifice that his service has entailed for him and his family.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stupak, who was on the hot seat for months amidst the debate over health care reform, will officially announce his retirement later today. The 18-year House veteran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/04\/09\/ap-rep-bart-stupak-retiring-years-congress\/\" >told<\/a> The Associated Press that the criticisms he took over his stand on abortion during that debate weren&#8217;t the reason he&#8217;s stepping down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just released from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.): Bart Stupak is a public servant of great integrity and genuine conscience.\u00a0 I deeply regret his decision from a public perspective, but I also respect and understand his decision because of the longevity of his service and the tremendous sacrifice that his service has entailed for him and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2763,"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-712785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Zqx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712785","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\/2763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}