{"id":230,"date":"2009-07-20T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T21:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/archives\/why-should-amendments-be-%e2%80%9ca-free-lunch%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T17:36:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T21:36:35","slug":"why-should-amendments-be-%e2%80%9ca-free-lunch%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/archives\/why-should-amendments-be-%e2%80%9ca-free-lunch%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should Amendments Be \u201cA Free Lunch\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dkms.com\/kmci\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-content\/themes\/cutline-3-column-split-11\/images\/clouds09.jpg\" alt=\"clouds09\" height=\"257\" width=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%\" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">Why is there \u201ca free lunch\u201d in Congress? Why are there 180 Republican Amendments for the House Health care Reform legislation, but no guaranteed Republican votes? Why should members be able to get amendments to bills proposed in committee accepted without any commitment from themselves? What kind of negotiation process is that? Why doesn&#8217;t the majority party require a guarantee that the amender vote for the bill? Then we might see some \u201cbipartisanship,\u201d or at least a better partisan bill. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%\" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">Just sayin . . . <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is there \u201ca free lunch\u201d in Congress? Why are there 180 Republican Amendments for the House Health care Reform legislation, but no guaranteed Republican votes? Why should members be able to get amendments to bills proposed in committee accepted without any commitment from themselves? What kind of negotiation process is that? Why doesn&#8217;t the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[693],"tags":[694,1904,1907,1693,1905,1912,1906],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bipartisanship","tag-congressional-amendments","tag-free-lunch","tag-health-care-reform","tag-negotiation-processs","tag-republican-amendments","tag-voting-guarantees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}