{"id":22859,"date":"2026-05-17T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ways-and-means-chief-says-hes-focused-on-bipartisanship-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:22:07","slug":"ways-and-means-chief-says-hes-focused-on-bipartisanship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ways-and-means-chief-says-hes-focused-on-bipartisanship-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways and Means chief says he&#8217;s focused on bipartisanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jason Smith had kind words for his Democratic counterparts at a D.C. tax conference&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/05\/14\/congress\/ways-and-means-chief-i-am-focused-on-bipartisanship-00920896\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jason Smith had kind words for his Democratic counterparts at a D.C. tax conference&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859","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=22859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}