{"id":127,"date":"2003-09-11T19:53:21","date_gmt":"2003-09-11T23:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=127"},"modified":"2003-09-11T19:53:21","modified_gmt":"2003-09-11T23:53:21","slug":"taking-the-party-out-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Taking the party out of politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A51656-2003Sep9?language=printer\">LINK<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><i>The House of Representatives approved the nation&#8217;s first federally funded voucher program by a single vote last night, sending the Senate a plan that would provide $10 million in private school tuition grants to at least 1,300 D.C. children next year.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year pilot program won final passage on a nearly party-line vote of 209 to 208, after angry complaints from Democrats about the tactics of the House GOP majority.<\/p>\n<p>House Republican leaders scheduled the vote to begin after 8 p.m., coinciding with a debate among Democratic presidential candidates in Baltimore that several House members who oppose vouchers &#8212; including debate participants Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.) and Dennis J. Kucinich (Ohio) &#8212; had planned to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans then held open the vote for roughly 40 minutes in a frantic effort to round up the last votes needed to overcome anti-voucher forces. They prevailed at last when Rep. Ernie Fletcher (R-Ky.), who had voted against the voucher plan on the House floor last week, cast a &#8220;yes&#8221; vote on the measure, breaking a 208 to 208 tie.<\/p>\n<p>According to this WP article, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), a voucher opponent who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, which sponsored the debate, also missed the vote.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Pathetic that the Republicans scheduled this to create a conflict with the debate.  Kucinich, Gephardt and Cummings made the wrong choice, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>I caught most of that debate on C-Span today.  The LaRouche protestors really infuriated Lieberman, eh?  Not surprising.  He impresses me as a button-down kind of guy.  Now I know he has a short-temper as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[LINK] The House of Representatives approved the nation&#8217;s first federally funded voucher program by a single vote last night, sending the Senate a plan that would provide $10 million in private school tuition grants to at least 1,300 D.C. children &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-23","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}