{"id":15971,"date":"2025-11-23T08:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/indicted-house-dem-will-step-down-from-committee-leadership-position-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T08:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:20:25","slug":"indicted-house-dem-will-step-down-from-committee-leadership-position-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/indicted-house-dem-will-step-down-from-committee-leadership-position-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Indicted House Dem will step down from committee leadership position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indicted Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida will step aside from her leadership position on a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee &#8220;while the matter is ongoing,&#8221; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries&#8217; office said Thursday morning. Democratic Caucus rules require indicted lawmakers to relinquish committee leadership slots.  &#8220;Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has proudly represented the people of Palm Beach and Broward Counties since 2022&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/20\/congress\/jeffries-on-cherfilus-mccormick-00661418\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indicted Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida will step aside from her leadership position on a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee &#8220;while the matter is ongoing,&#8221; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries&#8217; office said Thursday morning. Democratic Caucus rules require indicted lawmakers to relinquish committee leadership slots. &#8220;Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has proudly represented the people of Palm Beach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15971","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=15971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}