{"id":193738,"date":"2008-11-20T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/20\/waxman-ousts-dingell-as-head-of-house-house-energy-and-commerce-committee\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T00:37:00","slug":"waxman-ousts-dingell-as-head-of-house-house-energy-and-commerce-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/20\/waxman-ousts-dingell-as-head-of-house-house-energy-and-commerce-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Waxman Ousts Dingell as Head of House House Energy and Commerce Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waxman <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/waxman-wrestles-gavel-from-dingell-2008-11-20.html\">won the vote 137-122<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good thing for Congress and the nation.  Dingell has been doing exactly what the Big 3 (Big 2\u00bd) wanted for 50 years, which is why they are in such a mess.<\/p>\n<p>He was such a lapdog that he never did what they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">needed<\/span>, just what they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">wanted<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Waxman is much better pretty much all the issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waxman won the vote 137-122. This is a good thing for Congress and the nation. Dingell has been doing exactly what the Big 3 (Big 2\u00bd) wanted for 50 years, which is why they are in such a mess. He was such a lapdog that he never did what they needed, just what they wanted. &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-193738","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\/193738"}],"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=193738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}