{"id":16691,"date":"2009-12-15T03:25:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T03:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_joe_lieberman_poses_us_senate_healthcare_hurdle\/"},"modified":"2009-12-15T03:25:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T03:25:14","slug":"reuters_joe_lieberman_poses_us_senate_healthcare_hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16691","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: Joe Lieberman poses US Senate healthcare hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate struggled on Monday to move forward on a sweeping healthcare overhaul sought by President Barack Obama in the face of opposition from a frequent irritant &#8212; Joe Lieberman.<\/p>\n<p>As the Senate opened a make-or-break week for healthcare, Senator Lieberman&#8217;s threat to join Republicans in blocking the bill complicated Democratic efforts to gather the 60 votes needed to overcome Republican opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Obama invited all 60 members of the Senate Democratic caucus to the White House on Tuesday to discuss a way to reach agreement, party sources said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN1411162220091214?type=marketsNews\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate struggled on Monday to move forward on a sweeping healthcare overhaul sought by President Barack Obama in the face of opposition from a frequent irritant &#8212; Joe Lieberman. As the Senate opened a make-or-break<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16691\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,104,151,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-health-medicine","category-politics-in-general","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}