{"id":3215,"date":"2015-11-10T08:43:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T13:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2015-11-10T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T13:43:32","slug":"where-taxpayers-pay-100-million-a-year-but-interest-groups-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/where-taxpayers-pay-100-million-a-year-but-interest-groups-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Taxpayers Pay ($100 Million a Year) But Interest Groups Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Washington-Post.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3216\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/where-taxpayers-pay-100-million-a-year-but-interest-groups-benefit\/the-washington-post\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Washington-Post.png\" data-orig-size=\"573,88\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&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;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Washington Post\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Washington-Post-300x46.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Washington-Post.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3216\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Washington-Post.png\" alt=\"The Washington Post\" width=\"573\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Washington-Post.png 573w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Washington-Post-300x46.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a>It seemed like a silly question, but as the new guy, I was obliged to ask: \u201cCan I e-mail a copy of my report to my mother?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mom had been a local reporter when I was a kid and worked for a county government in Ohio. She has always had a bottomless appetite for politics and government, and her retirement years afforded plenty of time to read. I figured she would find my first Congressional Research Service report interesting. I also thought she would be proud to see her son published by such a prestigious organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d a supervisor told me, \u201cstrictly speaking, no. Only Congress may distribute our reports to the public.\u201d&#8230;. (Read more at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/federal-eye\/wp\/2015\/11\/10\/where-taxpayers-pay-100-million-a-year-but-interest-groups-benefit\/\">Washington Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed like a silly question, but as the new guy, I was obliged to ask: \u201cCan I e-mail a copy of my report to my mother?\u201d Mom had been a local reporter when I was a kid and worked for a county government in Ohio. She has always had a bottomless appetite for politics [&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":[163,27],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congressional-research-service","category-secrecy","tag-washington-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-PR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","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=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}