{"id":191602,"date":"2009-07-21T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/21\/robert-byrd-returns-to-the-senate\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T00:14:00","slug":"robert-byrd-returns-to-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/21\/robert-byrd-returns-to-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Byrd Returns to the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was there to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/37033-1.html\">vote in favor of the F-22 <del>boondoggle<\/del> Raptor<\/a>, and this means that the Dems, at least theoretically, have 59 votes for cloture, though I think that Ted Kennedy, who has also been absent for health reasons, would be down to the floor for anything short of a coma for the health plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was there to vote in favor of the F-22 boondoggle Raptor, and this means that the Dems, at least theoretically, have 59 votes for cloture, though I think that Ted Kennedy, who has also been absent for health reasons, would be down to the floor for anything short of a coma for the health &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}