{"id":3517,"date":"2016-12-01T20:12:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T01:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2016-12-01T20:12:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T01:12:50","slug":"testimony-before-congress-on-restoring-the-power-of-the-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/testimony-before-congress-on-restoring-the-power-of-the-purse\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony before Congress on Restoring the Power of the Purse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kosar-testifying-12-01-2016.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3518\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/testimony-before-congress-on-restoring-the-power-of-the-purse\/kosar-testifying-12-01-2016\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kosar-testifying-12-01-2016.png\" data-orig-size=\"712,434\" 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=\"kosar-testifying-12-01-2016\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kosar-testifying-12-01-2016-300x183.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kosar-testifying-12-01-2016.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3518\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kosar-testifying-12-01-2016.png\" alt=\"kosar-testifying-12-01-2016\" width=\"712\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kosar-testifying-12-01-2016.png 712w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kosar-testifying-12-01-2016-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/a>On December 1, 2016, I testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform&#8217;s Committee&#8217;s\u00a0 Subcommittee on Government Operations and Healthcare, Benefits, and Administrative Rules. The topic was Congress and the power of the purse, with a focus on executive agencies discretion to expend fees.<\/p>\n<p>My written testimony is <a href=\"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/Kosar%20Testimony%20HOGR%2011-29-2016%20With%20Extra%20Figure.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Video of my testimony as delivered and\u00a0my answers to questions is <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ruvTPrTlsrg?t=18m56s\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 1, 2016, I testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform&#8217;s Committee&#8217;s\u00a0 Subcommittee on Government Operations and Healthcare, Benefits, and Administrative Rules. The topic was Congress and the power of the purse, with a focus on executive agencies discretion to expend fees. My written testimony is here. Video of my testimony as delivered [&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":[165,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-UJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","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=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}