{"id":422,"date":"2009-01-08T20:22:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2009-01-08T20:22:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T20:22:58","slug":"rules_changes_in_the_house_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Rules Changes In The House Of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article in&nbsp;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jan\/07\/house-faces-early-partisan-fight-over-rules\/\">Washington Times<\/a>&nbsp;on Wednesday about the rules changes made in the House of Representatives on the first day of the 111th Congress.&nbsp; The article details the changes the Democrats have made in order to lessen the impact of the Republican minority&nbsp;in the house.&nbsp; During the past two years, Republicans have been able to slow down or block legislation they did not support, and the measures taken will make that much more difficult.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Another rule that was eliminated was the rule of term limits for committee chairmen.&nbsp; The chairmen&nbsp;were limited to three two-year terms&#8211;now there will be no limits at all.&nbsp; It will be interesting to see how these rule changes play out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article in&nbsp;the Washington Times&nbsp;on Wednesday about the rules changes made in the House of Representatives on the first day of the 111th Congress.&nbsp; The article details the changes the Democrats have made in order to lessen the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=422\">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-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}