{"id":16820,"date":"2025-12-17T03:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fitzpatrick-declines-to-turn-off-aca-discharge-petition-as-amendment-talks-drag-on-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T03:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:20:44","slug":"fitzpatrick-declines-to-turn-off-aca-discharge-petition-as-amendment-talks-drag-on-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fitzpatrick-declines-to-turn-off-aca-discharge-petition-as-amendment-talks-drag-on-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitzpatrick declines to turn off ACA discharge petition as amendment talks drag on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick told Speaker Mike Johnson on the House floor Tuesday he would not withdraw his discharge petition that would force a floor vote on extending expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies &mdash; amid Johnson&rsquo;s attempt to find a potential agreement to allow a vote on an amendment instead that would be similar in substance&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/16\/congress\/fitzpatrick-declines-to-turn-off-aca-discharge-petition-as-amendment-talks-drag-on-00694065\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick told Speaker Mike Johnson on the House floor Tuesday he would not withdraw his discharge petition that would force a floor vote on extending expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies &mdash; amid Johnson&rsquo;s attempt to find a potential agreement to allow a vote on an amendment instead that would be similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}