{"id":13349,"date":"2025-09-16T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-to-vote-on-resolution-honoring-charlie-kirk\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:16:43","slug":"house-to-vote-on-resolution-honoring-charlie-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-to-vote-on-resolution-honoring-charlie-kirk\/","title":{"rendered":"House to vote on resolution honoring Charlie Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House GOP leaders are teeing up a vote later this week on a measure honoring assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n

The resolution<\/a> is titled “Honoring the life and legacy of Charles ‘Charlie’ James Kirk” and condemns his killing as a “heinous act of violence” and a “sobering reminder of the growing threat posed by political extremism and hatred in our society.” It says “acts of politically motivated violence are antithetical to the principles of a free republic,” in a sentiment that is likely to find wide bipartisan support.<\/p>\n

It also praises Kirk as someone whose “steadfast dedication to the Constitution, civil discourse, and Biblical truth inspired a generation to cherish and defend the blessings of liberty,” something that could generate some Democratic grumbling. The resolution follows a Monday vigil organized by Republican leaders in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. <\/p>\n

The House Rules Committee will meet Tuesday afternoon on the Kirk resolution and the recently unveiled seven-week stopgap funding measure<\/a>. GOP leaders want to vote on both pieces of legislation by Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House GOP leaders are teeing up a vote later this week on a measure honoring assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The resolution is titled “Honoring the life and legacy of Charles ‘Charlie’ James Kirk” and condemns his killing as a “heinous act of violence” and a “sobering reminder of the growing threat posed by political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}