{"id":125750,"date":"2017-07-25T14:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T19:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=125750"},"modified":"2017-07-25T18:41:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T23:41:35","slug":"sen-votes-to-move-ahead-healthcare-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=125750","title":{"rendered":"Senate votes to move ahead on healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-118429\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/capitalbuilding2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP)\u00a0 &#8211; The Senate has voted to move ahead on health care legislation aimed at dismantling the Obama health law.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was 51-50 on Tuesday, a victory for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump. Last week, McConnell was forced to postpone the vote, lacking the support of conservatives and moderates.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote.<\/p>\n<p>In a dramatic turn, Sen. John McCain returned from Arizona where he is battling brain cancer to cast a crucial vote on proceeding on health care.<\/p>\n<p>The vote sets up days of debate and votes on repealing and replacing Barack Obama&#8217;s health care law. Whatever the Senate approves still requires a vote in the House.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump is praising the Senate for moving forward on health care repeal.<\/p>\n<p>He says a vote Tuesday to take up the Republican health care bill &#8220;was a big step.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump is speaking at a joint press conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri (sahd hah-REER&#8217;-ee).<\/p>\n<p>Trump is also thanking Arizona Sen. John McCain, who returned to Washington his brain cancer diagnosis, to cast a vote.<\/p>\n<p>Trump adds that he wants &#8220;to congratulate the American people&#8221; because better health care is on the way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP)\u00a0 &#8211; The Senate has voted to move ahead on health care legislation aimed at dismantling the Obama health law. The vote was 51-50 on Tuesday, a victory for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump. Last week, McConnell was forced to postpone the vote, lacking the support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125771,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125750\/revisions\/125771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}