{"id":2588,"date":"2010-03-01T20:43:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2010-03-01T20:43:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:43:34","slug":"what_happens_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2588","title":{"rendered":"What Happens In Washington D.C. Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I expected, the Minnesota House of Representatives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/stories\/2010\/03\/01\/16323\/amid_prayers_and_passionate_speeches_house_override_effort_on_gamc_fails_on_party-line_vote\">failed to override Pawlenty&#8217;s veto<\/a> of a bill that would have restored General Assistance Medical Care, the health care program for the state&#8217;s poorest citizens. Most of the House Republican moderates who participated in the only successful override of a Pawlenty veto have retired or have been defeated in the last election. And the few remaining are loathe to side with Democrats in an election cycle that strongly favors Republicans. A procedural maneuver allows Democrats to make another attempt, but it seems increasingly unlikely that GAMC will be saved before funding runs out on April 1. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting again that almost everyone eligible for GAMC would be eligible for Medicaid under the Senate health care bill. If Minnesota took advantage of the bill&#8217;s early expansion provision, these individuals could be enrolled in Medicaid in a matter of months. I&#8217;m not sure how closely our congressional delegation is paying attention to the GAMC fight, but they need to understand how a &#8220;yes&#8221; vote could almost immediately improve people&#8217;s lives. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I expected, the Minnesota House of Representatives failed to override Pawlenty&#8217;s veto of a bill that would have restored General Assistance Medical Care, the health care program for the state&#8217;s poorest citizens. Most of the House Republican moderates who participated in the only successful override of a Pawlenty veto have retired or have been <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2588' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-FK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}