{"id":83408,"date":"2017-01-14T08:10:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T13:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=83408"},"modified":"2017-01-14T08:10:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T13:10:23","slug":"latta-votes-to-begin-obamacare-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/01\/14\/latta-votes-to-begin-obamacare-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta votes to begin Obamacare repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0&#8212;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) joined his colleagues in the House of\u00a0Representatives\u00a0in passing legislation that takes an important step forward toward repealing Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>Latta voted for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/115\/bills\/sconres3\/BILLS-115sconres3es.pdf\">S.Con.Res. 3<\/a>, the Fiscal Year 2017 budget, which now paves the way for passing a repeal of the President\u2019s massive health care law in the coming months. By passing the budget, the U.S.\u00a0Senate\u00a0can now use a procedural tool known as reconciliation, which would only require a simple majority threshold, to approve Obamacare repeal legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeven years after the passing of Obamacare,\u00a0I\u00a0continue to hear from Ohioans who tell me that they are paying more and getting less when it comes to their health care,\u201d said Latta.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s long past due that we repeal this massive law\u00a0and\u00a0put decision-making back in the hands of patients and their doctors. Today\u2019s vote is an important, and necessary, first step in fixing our broken health care system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) joined his colleagues in the House of\u00a0Representatives\u00a0in passing legislation that takes an important step forward toward repealing Obamacare. Latta voted for S.Con.Res. 3, the Fiscal Year 2017 budget, which now paves the way for passing a repeal of the President\u2019s massive health care law in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 18:50:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}