{"id":4010,"date":"2019-06-26T15:47:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2019-06-26T15:48:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T19:48:29","slug":"making-sure-congress-is-not-outgunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/making-sure-congress-is-not-outgunned\/","title":{"rendered":"Making sure Congress is not outgunned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cato-Kosar-OTA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3983\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/congress-tech-policy-knowledge-gap\/cato-kosar-ota\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cato-Kosar-OTA.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"656,242\" 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=\"Cato Kosar OTA\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cato-Kosar-OTA-300x111.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cato-Kosar-OTA.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3983\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cato-Kosar-OTA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cato-Kosar-OTA.jpg 656w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Cato-Kosar-OTA-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a>I enjoyed reading the response essays of Will Rinehart, Betsy Hawkings and Berin Sz\u00f3ka. They all make good points and bring valuable facts and ideas to the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>On the most macroscopic level, all of us seem to agree that Congress is ill-equipped to oversee, let alone make, good policy on highly scientific or technological issues. But as Betsy Hawkings rightly observes, the problem is bigger than a lack of access to technological expertise&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato-unbound.org\/2019\/06\/26\/kevin-kosar\/making-sure-congress-isnt-outgunned\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed reading the response essays of Will Rinehart, Betsy Hawkings and Berin Sz\u00f3ka. They all make good points and bring valuable facts and ideas to the discussion. On the most macroscopic level, all of us seem to agree that Congress is ill-equipped to oversee, let alone make, good policy on highly scientific or technological [&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":[160,185],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-government-oversight","tag-cato-unbound"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-12G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010","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=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4011,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions\/4011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}