{"id":17615,"date":"2026-01-12T18:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/steny-hoyer-announcing-his-retirement-says-hes-deeply-concerned-about-the-house-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:20:33","slug":"steny-hoyer-announcing-his-retirement-says-hes-deeply-concerned-about-the-house-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/steny-hoyer-announcing-his-retirement-says-hes-deeply-concerned-about-the-house-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Steny Hoyer, announcing his retirement, says he&#8217;s &#8216;deeply concerned&#8217; about the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an emotional nine-minute-long speech, Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer said goodbye to the institution where he has spent over four decades &mdash; and expressed fears for its future. The 86-year-old Democratic former majority leader walked through his career and a path to Congress that started in the late 1950s as a University of Maryland undergrad before announcing his 23rd term would be his last&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/08\/congress\/steny-hoyer-speech-deeply-concerned-00716037\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an emotional nine-minute-long speech, Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer said goodbye to the institution where he has spent over four decades &mdash; and expressed fears for its future. The 86-year-old Democratic former majority leader walked through his career and a path to Congress that started in the late 1950s as a University of Maryland undergrad [&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-17615","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\/17615","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=17615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}