{"id":1435,"date":"2009-12-13T21:37:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T21:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2009-12-13T21:37:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T21:37:41","slug":"why_we_need_to_send_congress_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need To Send Congress Home On Weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/71981-senate-passes-11-trillion-omnibus\">The Hill<\/a>&nbsp;reported today that the Senate today (on Sunday) passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill.&nbsp; The Republicans had filibustered the bill, but the Democrats broke through the filibuster on Saturday.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The bill, which includes $447 billion in appropriations for a number of cabinet departments and $650 billion for Medicare and Medicaid, combines six of the 12 annual spending bills Congress had been unable to pass separately because of Republican concerns that the measure is over-inflated and exceeds the cost of inflation in its government budget increases.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Democrats who voted against the bill were Sens. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) and Evan Bayh (Ind.).&nbsp; There was one Republican who voted for the bill.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Senate is expected to return to working&nbsp;for passage of&nbsp;the healthcare bill next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill&nbsp;reported today that the Senate today (on Sunday) passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill.&nbsp; The Republicans had filibustered the bill, but the Democrats broke through the filibuster on Saturday.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;The bill, which includes $447 billion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1435\">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-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","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=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}