{"id":4015,"date":"2019-09-20T09:52:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2019-12-11T19:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T00:02:42","slug":"a-permanent-committee-to-fix-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/a-permanent-committee-to-fix-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"A permanent committee to fix Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3706\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MCGA-Washington-Monthly-09-07-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3706\" data-attachment-id=\"3706\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/make-congress-great-again\/the-united-states-capitol-building-washington-dc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MCGA-Washington-Monthly-09-07-2017.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2121,1414\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Getty Images\\\/iStockphoto&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;uschools&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;The United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MCGA-Washington-Monthly-09-07-2017-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MCGA-Washington-Monthly-09-07-2017-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3706\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MCGA-Washington-Monthly-09-07-2017-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MCGA-Washington-Monthly-09-07-2017-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MCGA-Washington-Monthly-09-07-2017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MCGA-Washington-Monthly-09-07-2017-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congress is a basket case. Our national legislature has passed only a couple dozen laws this year, a count which includes legislation naming a post office and appointing former Senator Bob Dole a colonel. Committees, once congressional powerhouses, are moving little legislation and are conducting fewer oversight hearings than in past decades. Meanwhile, huge issues\u2014like immigration and the ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Syria\u2014go unresolved&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2019\/how-to-fix-politics-in-america\/gridlock\/a-permanent-committee-to-improve-Congress\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is a basket case. Our national legislature has passed only a couple dozen laws this year, a count which includes legislation naming a post office and appointing former Senator Bob Dole a colonel. Committees, once congressional powerhouses, are moving little legislation and are conducting fewer oversight hearings than in past decades. Meanwhile, huge issues\u2014like [&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":[190],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-politico"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-12L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","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=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}