{"id":1008,"date":"2009-07-16T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2009-07-16T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:23:22","slug":"should_congress_be_required_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Should Congress Be Required To Live Under The Laws It Passes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like a pretty obvious question&#8211;until you realize that Congress opted out of Social Security, then started taking money from the program while increasing the amount of money ordinary Americans pay into the system.&nbsp; They are about to do something similar with healthcare.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Representative John Fleming of Louisiana is drafting legislation to force Congress to live under the laws they pass.&nbsp; His website, <a href=\"http:\/\/fleming.house.gov\/\">fleming.house.gov<\/a>,&nbsp;posts the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Under the current draft of the Democrat healthcare legislation, members of Congress are curiously exempt from the government-run health care option, keeping their existing health plans and services on Capitol Hill. If Members of Congress believe so strongly that government-run health care is the best solution for hard working American families, I think it only fitting that Americans see them lead the way. Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they are advocating, and I challenge the American people to demand this from their representatives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Together we will work to ensure that any plan that is good enough is for American families is good enough for every member of Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fleming.house.gov\/images\/FLEMING%20HEALTH%20CARE%20RESOLUTION.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>View Resolution<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>If you would like to download a letter of support for House Resolution 615 to send to your representative click <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/fleming.house.gov\/uploads\/Health%20Care%20letter.doc\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is a wonderful idea.&nbsp; Please follow the links above to support it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like a pretty obvious question&#8211;until you realize that Congress opted out of Social Security, then started taking money from the program while increasing the amount of money ordinary Americans pay into the system.&nbsp; They are about to do something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1008\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}