{"id":2353,"date":"2024-11-12T23:20:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T23:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/congress-returns-to-washington-for-a-3-week-preelection-sprint\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T23:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T23:20:20","slug":"congress-returns-to-washington-for-a-3-week-preelection-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/congress-returns-to-washington-for-a-3-week-preelection-sprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress returns to Washington for a 3-week preelection sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are fully back in Washington for the first time in more than a month with a familiar dilemma: Ducking a government shutdown weeks away from a pivotal election.  House Republicans will tee up their opening offer &mdash; an extension of funds until March 28 that also includes a provision requiring proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections &mdash; during a 4 p.m&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/09\/09\/congress\/welcome-back-capitol-hill-00177935\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are fully back in Washington for the first time in more than a month with a familiar dilemma: Ducking a government shutdown weeks away from a pivotal election. House Republicans will tee up their opening offer &mdash; an extension of funds until March 28 that also includes a provision requiring proof of citizenship in [&hellip;]<\/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-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","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=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}