{"id":1058,"date":"2009-08-02T21:20:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T21:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2009-08-02T21:20:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T21:20:30","slug":"some_good_news_from_congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"Some Good News From Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/public\/content\/article.aspx?RsrcID=51806\">CNS News<\/a>&nbsp;reported that a bi-partisan group of Senators were uniting to&nbsp;introduce a bill to reinstate the Washington, D. C., school voucher program that was terminated in the stimulus bill.&nbsp; The article states:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;According to (Senator) Lieberman, the bill would not only keep the program going, it also would allow it to continue taking in more <nobr><a class=\"GVAdLink\" id=\"GVLINK_3_0_2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/public\/content\/article.aspx?RsrcID=51806#\"><font color=\"#006600\">students<\/font><\/a><\/nobr>, including 216 who had been awarded <nobr><a class=\"GVAdLink\" id=\"GVLINK_2_0_0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/public\/content\/article.aspx?RsrcID=51806#\"><font color=\"#006600\">scholarships<\/font><\/a><\/nobr> for the upcoming school year &#8212; only to see them vanish when the program was terminated.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Finally, it looks as if Congress may be in danger of getting something right!&nbsp; According to the article, during the 2008-2009 school year, over 1,700 children were aided by the Opportunity Scholarship Program, enrolling in 49 different non-public schools. Hopefully, this bill will be passed and&nbsp;children is our nation&#8217;s capital will have the opportunity to receive a good education.&nbsp; While they are at it, vouchers should be legal all over the country!&nbsp; Competition in education is a good thing and should be encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, CNS News&nbsp;reported that a bi-partisan group of Senators were uniting to&nbsp;introduce a bill to reinstate the Washington, D. C., school voucher program that was terminated in the stimulus bill.&nbsp; The article states: &#8220;According to (Senator) Lieberman, the bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1058\">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-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","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=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}