{"id":4292,"date":"2020-09-24T14:20:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2020-09-24T14:20:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:20:41","slug":"congressional-reform-grinds-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/congressional-reform-grinds-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional reform grinds forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" 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\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MCGA-Washington-Monthly-09-07-2017-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3706\" 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: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the House of Representatives\u2019 Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress released a slew of recommendations to upgrade the chamber. Taken as a whole, these reforms would increase the chamber\u2019s capacity to get things done by better focusing its work schedule, revitalizing congressional committees, and making repairs to the broken budget process&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/politics-and-public-opinion\/congressional-reform-grinds-forward\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the House of Representatives\u2019 Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress released a slew of recommendations to upgrade the chamber. Taken as a whole, these reforms would increase the chamber\u2019s capacity to get things done by better focusing its work schedule, revitalizing congressional committees, and making repairs to the broken budget process&#8230;.(Read more)<\/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":[227],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-aei-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-17e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","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=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}