{"id":1275,"date":"2009-10-17T15:40:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T15:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2009-10-17T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T15:40:04","slug":"bipartisanship_in_the_finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"Bi-Partisanship In The Finance Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/63431-rockefeller-finance-committee-bill-wasnt-bipartisan\">The Hill<\/a>&nbsp;(Blog Briefing Room) reported that Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) stated that the healthcare bill that came out of the Finance Committee was not bi-partisan.&nbsp; He stated that early negotiations excluded key committee members for the sake of a proposal that ultimately &#8220;wasn&#8217;t bipartisan,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article quotes Senator Rockefeller:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;That&#8217;s what happened on the <nobr><a class=\"GVAdLink\" id=\"GVLINK_2_0_0\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/63431-rockefeller-finance-committee-bill-wasnt-bipartisan#\"><font color=\"#006600\">stimulus<\/font><\/a><\/nobr> bill &#8230; we got one vote on the stimulus bill and it was always referred to as [the] bipartisan stimulus bill,&#8221; Rockefeller added. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t, it wasn&#8217;t &#8212; it was us plus Olympia &#8230; it&#8217;s game-playing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I appreciate his honesty&#8211;one Republican vote does not make a bill bi-partisan!&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Hill&nbsp;(Blog Briefing Room) reported that Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) stated that the healthcare bill that came out of the Finance Committee was not bi-partisan.&nbsp; He stated that early negotiations excluded key committee members for the sake of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1275\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}