{"id":9767,"date":"2009-08-04T19:12:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T19:12:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-04T19:12:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T19:12:32","slug":"rep-woolsey-and-the-progressive-caucus-remind-the-speaker-that-the-public-option-is-not-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/04\/rep-woolsey-and-the-progressive-caucus-remind-the-speaker-that-the-public-option-is-not-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Woolsey and the Progressive Caucus Remind the Speaker that the Public Option is Not Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressive Caucus sent Speaker Pelosi a letter to remind her of the requirements for the largest caucus amongst the Democratic Party in the House. &nbsp;It must include a robust public option. A snippet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Madam Speaker, the Congressional Progressive Caucus stand united to provide high quality, affordable and accessible health care choices for all Americans. A majority of our members prefer single payer. Nonetheless, we stand solidly behind our criteria for a robust public otion. We cannot support anything less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party stand up for progressive values every now and again. &nbsp;The Blue Dogs get a ton of attention, but when it comes down to it, they number fewer than the Progressives. &nbsp;Progressives have the support of the vast majority of the activists who are doing all of the hard work to win a solid health care reform package. The Blue Dogs have&#8230;um, some bucks from the insurance companies?<\/p>\n<p>You can catch the full letter over the flip.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"_ds_9422668\" name=\"_ds_9422668\" width=\"670\" height=\"550\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"doc_id=9422668&#038;mem_id=190918&#038;doc_type=pdf&#038;fullscreen=0\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/><font size=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docstoc.com\/docs\/9422668\/Progressive-Caucus-Health-Care-Letter\">Progressive Caucus Health Care Letter<\/a> &#8211; <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressive Caucus sent Speaker Pelosi a letter to remind her of the requirements for the largest caucus amongst the Democratic Party in the House. &nbsp;It must include a robust public option. A snippet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Madam Speaker, the Congressional Progressive Caucus stand united to provide high quality, affordable and accessible health care choices for all Americans. A majority of our members prefer single payer. Nonetheless, we stand solidly behind our criteria for a robust public otion. We cannot support anything less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party stand up for progressive values every now and again. &nbsp;The Blue Dogs get a ton of attention, but when it comes down to it, they number fewer than the Progressives. &nbsp;Progressives have the support of the vast majority of the activists who are doing all of the hard work to win a solid health care reform package. The Blue Dogs have&#8230;um, some bucks from the insurance companies?<\/p>\n<p>You can catch the full letter over the flip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[22],"tags":[7464],"class_list":["post-9767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22","tag-7464"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2xx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}