{"id":32962,"date":"2012-12-06T14:51:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T21:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32962"},"modified":"2012-12-06T14:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T21:51:28","slug":"chicago-tribune-republicans-block-u-n-treaty-to-protect-people-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/12\/06\/chicago-tribune-republicans-block-u-n-treaty-to-protect-people-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Tribune: Republicans block U.N. treaty to protect people with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Republican lawmakers on Tuesday blocked a treaty to protect people with disabilities from discrimination despite a passionate plea from former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who was severely wounded in World War Two.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted 61-38 to pass the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, falling short of the 66 votes needed to ratify the treaty.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2012-12-04\/news\/sns-rt-us-usa-congress-disabilitiesbre8b319f-20121204_1_treaty-republican-party-disabilities\" title=\"Republicans block treaty to protect disabled\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Republican lawmakers on Tuesday blocked a treaty to protect people with disabilities from discrimination despite a passionate plea from former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who was severely wounded in World War Two. The Senate voted 61-38 to pass the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, falling short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32963,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32962\/revisions\/32963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}