{"id":5565,"date":"2025-05-09T21:16:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T01:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2025-05-09T21:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T01:16:41","slug":"house-gop-shuts-down-democrats-oversight-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/house-gop-shuts-down-democrats-oversight-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP shuts down Democrats\u2019 oversight of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Republicans recently sank numerous Democratic efforts to investigate President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0administration<\/a>, but anyone who is not a close watcher of\u00a0Congress<\/a>\u00a0would be forgiven for missing this late April development. The roadblock was erected through a vote on a House rule, parliamentary parlance for a resolution establishing the parameters of floor debate. That can include delineating which amendments, if any, can be offered on an underlying piece of legislation. A House rule can also make substantive changes to the legislative measure itself, effectively altering its content in one fell swoop…. (Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Republicans recently sank numerous Democratic efforts to investigate President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0administration, but anyone who is not a close watcher of\u00a0Congress\u00a0would be forgiven for missing this late April development. The roadblock was erected through a vote on a House rule, parliamentary parlance for a resolution establishing the parameters of floor debate. That can include delineating which […]<\/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":[174],"class_list":["post-5565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-the-washington-examiner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1rL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565","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=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5567,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions\/5567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}