{"id":2926,"date":"2008-02-28T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/02\/richardson-wont-call-special-session-until-summer\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T22:21:00","slug":"richardson-wont-call-special-session-until-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/02\/richardson-wont-call-special-session-until-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson won&#8217;t call special session until summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R8c0E3rNkiI\/AAAAAAAAFGE\/ngG2Fgl-maM\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R8c0E3rNkiI\/AAAAAAAAFGE\/ngG2Fgl-maM\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172159955327619618\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> announced today that he won\u2019t call a special session for health-care reform until the summer.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The decision comes following a meeting today with Senate leaders, Richardson said in a news release. He said he and the senators \u201cagreed to form bipartisan, executive-legislative working groups that will develop consensus on all of the key areas of a universal health coverage plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWe all want a productive special session that results in affordable access to health care,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He called the meeting with Senate leaders \u201cproductive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The news will come as a relief to many lawmakers who are focused on re-election and the June 3 primary. Most politicos believed <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> would be making a mistake to call lawmakers back immediately. There is currently no consensus on health-care reform, and the relationship between the governor and Senate has been increasingly contentious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The working groups may be a chance to improve that relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson announced today that he won\u2019t call a special session for health-care reform until the summer. The decision comes following a meeting today with Senate leaders, Richardson said in a news release. He said he and the senators \u201cagreed to form bipartisan, executive-legislative working groups that will develop consensus on all of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}