{"id":3555,"date":"2017-01-13T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T20:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2017-01-13T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T20:44:26","slug":"does-congress-want-to-govern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/does-congress-want-to-govern\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Congress Want to Govern?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Over the past year, leading members of Congress have delivered some stirring mea culpas<\/em> about the demise of the First Branch of Government.<\/p>\n

Speaker Ryan\u2019s \u201cA Better Way\u201d agenda declares<\/a>: \u201cThe people granted Congress the power to write laws, raise revenues, and spend and borrow money on behalf of the United States. There is no power more consequential \u2026Yet for decades, Congress has let this power atrophy \u2014 thereby depriving the people of their voice.\u201d Similarly, Senator Mike Lee last year launched the Article I Project<\/a> on the premise that, \u201cthe federal government is broken, and congressional weakness is to blame \u2026 Congress has handed many of its constitutional responsibilities to the Executive Branch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressional Republicans who sounded these alarms about executive overreach may well have had Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in mind. But as Donald Trump prepares to assume office, these calls for congressional re-assertion have become increasingly bipartisan….(Read more at Real Clear Policy<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past year, leading members of Congress have delivered some stirring mea culpas about the demise of the First Branch of Government. Speaker Ryan\u2019s \u201cA Better Way\u201d agenda declares: \u201cThe people granted Congress the power to write laws, raise revenues, and spend and borrow money on behalf of the United States. There is no […]<\/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":[183],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-real-clear-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Vl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","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=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}