{"id":16802,"date":"2009-12-20T23:27:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T23:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/obama_camp_predicts_health_bill_will_pass_soon\/"},"modified":"2009-12-20T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T23:27:41","slug":"obama_camp_predicts_health_bill_will_pass_soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16802","title":{"rendered":"Obama Camp Predicts Health Bill Will Pass Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Axelrod, an adviser to President Barack Obama, predicted health-care legislation would pass &#8220;soon,&#8221; after Senate Democrats on Saturday secured the 60 votes needed to clear a path for quick Senate passage of the measure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re right on the one-yard line&#8221; with Senate Democrats reaching a deal, Mr. Axelrod said on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; which aired Sunday. &#8220;I believe this is going to happen soon\u201d\u00a6. People understand we&#8217;re on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority leader Harry Reid secured the pivotal 60th vote after a late-night deal on abortion coverage locked in the support of Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson. The agreement capped weeks of negotiations aimed at building consensus on the White House-backed initiative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB126132489013599195.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Axelrod, an adviser to President Barack Obama, predicted health-care legislation would pass &#8220;soon,&#8221; after Senate Democrats on Saturday secured the 60 votes needed to clear a path for quick Senate passage of the measure. &#8220;We&#8217;re right on the one-yard<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16802\">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":[39,40,513,104,617,616,151,667,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16802","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-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16802","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=16802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}