{"id":24625,"date":"2014-12-23T16:47:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T21:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24625"},"modified":"2014-12-23T16:47:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T21:47:19","slug":"will-president-obama-work-with-the-new-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24625","title":{"rendered":"Will President Obama Work With The New Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Examiner<\/a> posted a story today about President Obama’s<\/a> new liaison to the Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Marty Paone will be the new deputy assistant for legislative affairs with the White House<\/a>, the White House confirmed to the Washington Examiner<\/em>. Paone has previously lobbied<\/a> for construction of the 1,200-mile TransCanada Corp.<\/a> oil sands pipeline on behalf of a coalition of Canadian oil<\/a> companies through his job at lobbying shop Prime Policy Group, where he most recently served as executive vice president<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…”As an expert on Senate procedure, [Paone] will be instrumental in helping the White House navigate complex developments like reconciliation and potential rules changes in the next Congress<\/a>,” a White House official said. “Marty has longstanding Senate relationships, which will help the president advance major bipartisan legislative issues like trade and long-term transportation bill. Marty has the reputation as a tough but fair negotiator, and is known for his good sense of humor<\/a>.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Does this mean that President Obama actually wants to work with the Senate to get things done? Grad some popcorn, this could get interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Examiner posted a story today about President Obama’s new liaison to the Senate. The article reports: Marty Paone will be the new deputy assistant for legislative affairs with the White House, the White House confirmed to the Washington … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,8554,2720,386,211],"class_list":["post-24625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-marty-paone","tag-the-washington-examiner","tag-united-states-senate","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24625","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24628,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24625\/revisions\/24628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}