{"id":5766,"date":"2026-06-29T08:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2026-06-29T08:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:42:43","slug":"congress-is-struggling-to-get-its-work-done-and-a-new-report-argues-for-21st-century-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/congress-is-struggling-to-get-its-work-done-and-a-new-report-argues-for-21st-century-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Is Struggling to Get Its Work Done and a New Report Argues for 21st-century Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The news coming from Capitol Hill over the past couple of weeks has left much to be desired.\u00a0Congress<\/a>\u00a0has had difficulty discharging its lawmaking duties. The\u00a0Senate\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0appropriations committee is at loggerheads over how much spending to authorize. The impasse is hindering Congress\u2019s ability to pass the dozen spending bills and avert a government shutdown on Oct. 1…. (Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The news coming from Capitol Hill over the past couple of weeks has left much to be desired.\u00a0Congress\u00a0has had difficulty discharging its lawmaking duties. The\u00a0Senate\u2019s\u00a0appropriations committee is at loggerheads over how much spending to authorize. The impasse is hindering Congress\u2019s ability to pass the dozen spending bills and avert a government shutdown on Oct. 1…. […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-5766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1v0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766","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=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5768,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}