{"id":1282,"date":"2009-10-19T14:56:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T14:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2009-10-19T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T14:56:28","slug":"sometimes_i_really_appreciate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I Really Appreciate Senator Joseph Lieberman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/63657-lieberman-to-hold-czars-hearing\">The Hill<\/a>&#8216;s Blog Briefing Room is reporting today that Senator Joseph Lieberman (the Independent from Connecticut) will hold hearings on Thursday to explore the role of &#8216;czars&#8217; in the executive branch.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will convene the Senate <nobr><a class=\"GVAdLink\" id=\"GVLINK_1_0_1\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/63657-lieberman-to-hold-czars-hearing#\"><font color=\"#006600\">Homeland Security<\/font><\/a><\/nobr> and Government Affairs Committee on Thursday to explore &#8220;The Past, Present, and Future of Policy Czars.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Why is it that an independent Senator has the intestinal fortitude to do this and the Republicans in Congress do not?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Some of the witnesses at the hearing will be former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, <nobr><a class=\"GVAdLink\" id=\"GVLINK_2_0_0\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/63657-lieberman-to-hold-czars-hearing#\"><font color=\"#006600\">George Mason University<\/font><\/a><\/nobr> Professor James Piffner, <nobr><a class=\"GVAdLink\" id=\"GVLINK_3_0_2\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/63657-lieberman-to-hold-czars-hearing#\"><font color=\"#006600\">Attorney<\/font><\/a><\/nobr> Lee A. Casey, and Harold Relyea, a former researcher at the Congressional Research Service.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Previous Presidents have also appointed &#8216;czars&#8217;.&nbsp; The issue is what the specific responsibilities of the czars are and whether or not they are&nbsp;involved in determining policy.&nbsp; They are not confirmed by the Senate and there is some real question as to whether or not they are constitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill&#8216;s Blog Briefing Room is reporting today that Senator Joseph Lieberman (the Independent from Connecticut) will hold hearings on Thursday to explore the role of &#8216;czars&#8217; in the executive branch.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1282\">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-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","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=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}