{"id":199502,"date":"2007-07-22T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/22\/pelosi-and-reid-will-ram-through-ethics-legislation\/"},"modified":"2007-07-22T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T00:11:00","slug":"pelosi-and-reid-will-ram-through-ethics-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/22\/pelosi-and-reid-will-ram-through-ethics-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi and Reid will Ram Through Ethics Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legislation has been stalled because the Republicans have refused to appoint Republican members to the conference committee.  The Democratic majority leaders have now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ombwatch.org\/article\/articleview\/3894\/1\/491\">decided to use a little used parlimentary maneuver to short circuit the foot dragging<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, it comes down to the House and Senate Democrats working out the minor differences between the bills on their own, and then passing identical bills through both houses.<\/p>\n<p>Identical bills mean no conference committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legislation has been stalled because the Republicans have refused to appoint Republican members to the conference committee. The Democratic majority leaders have now decided to use a little used parlimentary maneuver to short circuit the foot dragging. Basically, it comes down to the House and Senate Democrats working out the minor differences between the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199502"}],"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=199502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}