{"id":3292,"date":"2016-03-03T13:27:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2016-03-03T13:27:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:27:16","slug":"a-revived-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/a-revived-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"A Revived Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weekly-Standard-Logo-01-2016.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3259\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3259\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/obamas-disappointing-regulatory-reform-record\/weekly-standard-logo-01-2016\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weekly-Standard-Logo-01-2016.png\" data-orig-size=\"494,186\" 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=\"Weekly Standard Logo 01-2016\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weekly-Standard-Logo-01-2016-300x113.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weekly-Standard-Logo-01-2016.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3259\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weekly-Standard-Logo-01-2016.png\" alt=\"Weekly Standard Logo 01-2016\" width=\"494\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weekly-Standard-Logo-01-2016.png 494w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weekly-Standard-Logo-01-2016-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a>Since arriving in the U.S. Senate in 2011, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has made many of his colleagues crazy. Unwilling to go along to get along, Lee has called out publicly our nation&#8217;s legislature for its profligacy and habit of showing up for work barely half the year. Six months into his time in office, Lee published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/159184777X\/alcoholreviewsco\" target=\"_blank\">a book advocating a balanced-budget amendment<\/a>. All of which offended the stuffed shirts who think of their chamber as<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0465027792\/alcoholreviewsco\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;the most exclusive club.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Senate has a habit of grinding down nonconformists. Chamber leaders and committee heads have plenty of tools to neuter the legislative ambitions and generally marginalize black sheep&#8230;.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/print\/a-revived-congress\/article\/2001110\">Read more at the Weekly Standard<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since arriving in the U.S. Senate in 2011, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has made many of his colleagues crazy. Unwilling to go along to get along, Lee has called out publicly our nation&#8217;s legislature for its profligacy and habit of showing up for work barely half the year. Six months into his time in office, [&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":[151],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-the-weekly-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-R6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","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=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}