{"id":3208,"date":"2015-11-04T15:01:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T20:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2015-11-04T15:03:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T20:03:45","slug":"the-house-freedom-caucus-wants-looser-party-control-on-the-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-house-freedom-caucus-wants-looser-party-control-on-the-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"The House Freedom Caucus Wants Looser Party Control on the Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Capitol-CRS-Reports.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3198\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/15-reasons-congressional-research-service-reports-should-be-public\/capitol-crs-reports\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Capitol-CRS-Reports.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1140,500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Getty Images\\\/iStockphoto&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Capitol building in Washington DC&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;469858807&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"U.S. Capitol\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Capitol-CRS-Reports-300x132.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Capitol-CRS-Reports-1024x449.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3198\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Capitol-CRS-Reports-1024x449.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Capitol\" width=\"610\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Capitol-CRS-Reports-1024x449.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Capitol-CRS-Reports-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Capitol-CRS-Reports.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>Former House speaker, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), was often attacked by fellow Republicans for influencing House processes to get policy outcomes that he wanted. We all know what\u2019s happened since. Boehner resigned, and his heir apparent, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), withdrew. In the meantime, the House Freedom Caucus outlined a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000150-49be-d501-ab5d-6dbf7cd70000\">policy<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/polyarchy\/2015\/10\/20\/9570747\/house-freedom-caucus-process-demands\">process<\/a> demands for the next speaker, who we now know is Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.)&#8230;.\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2015\/11\/04\/the-house-freedom-caucus-wants-party-leaders-to-loosen-control-this-is-what-would-happen-if-they-did\/\">Read more at the Washington Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former House speaker, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), was often attacked by fellow Republicans for influencing House processes to get policy outcomes that he wanted. We all know what\u2019s happened since. Boehner resigned, and his heir apparent, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), withdrew. In the meantime, the House Freedom Caucus outlined a list of policy and\u00a0process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-washington-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-PK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}