{"id":39207,"date":"2020-06-26T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39207"},"modified":"2020-06-26T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T18:32:09","slug":"the-senate-actually-passed-a-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39207","title":{"rendered":"The Senate Actually Passed A Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/senate-passes-bipartisan-bill-placing-sanctions-on-chinese-interference-with-hong-kong-autonomy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One America News<\/a> is reporting today that the Senate has passed a bill sanctioning Chinese officials over the country\u2019s actions against Hong Kong. The bipartisan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/senate-bill\/3798\">Hong Kong Autonomy Act<\/a> passed with unanimous consent Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This is good news. China needs to pay a price for what it has done to Hong Kong. Otherwise Taiwan is next. Taiwan is probably next anyway, but at least we can try to slow things down a little.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The bill would place sanctions on businesses, individuals and police that interfere with Hong Kong\u2019s freedoms. This came after China announced a national security law that is expected pass on June 30, which is threatening Hong Kong\u2019s autonomy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A resolution introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (r-Mo.) was also approved, formally condemning China\u2019s\u2019 actions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThe Senate needs to act now, Mr. President, to send a clear signal now that we will stand up to this aggression,\u201d he stated. \u201c\u2026to rally free peoples now in defense of the rights and liberties of Hong Kong.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hitting China in the pocketbook is probably the only was to deal with them successfully.<\/p>\n<div id=\"leaderboard_atf\" class=\"pw-tag\" data-pw-desk=\"leaderboard_atf\" data-google-query-id=\"CIiQ-qWOoOoCFRCnhgodFggAjw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/154013155\/1023191\/71157\/1023191-71157-desktop_leaderboard_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One America News is reporting today that the Senate has passed a bill sanctioning Chinese officials over the country\u2019s actions against Hong Kong. The bipartisan Hong Kong Autonomy Act passed with unanimous consent Thursday. This is good news. China needs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39207\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[5417,253,7278,735,1999,12426,1369,11477,711],"class_list":["post-39207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-congress","tag-hong-kong","tag-josh-hawley","tag-national-security","tag-one-america-news","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39207","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=39207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39208,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39207\/revisions\/39208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}