{"id":2460,"date":"2024-11-14T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/heres-who-we-spotted-in-washingtons-halls-of-power-on-this-busy-news-day-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:21:00","slug":"heres-who-we-spotted-in-washingtons-halls-of-power-on-this-busy-news-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/heres-who-we-spotted-in-washingtons-halls-of-power-on-this-busy-news-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s who we spotted in Washington\u2019s halls of power on this busy news day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Hill was swamped with political heavyweights Wednesday as key players converged for meetings and early preparations for the transition. Senate Republicans in the morning chose John Thune to succeed Mitch McConnell as GOP leader. In the afternoon, House Republicans unanimously elected Mike Johnson as their nominee for speaker&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/13\/congress\/spotted-capitol-hill-white-house-00189433\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Hill was swamped with political heavyweights Wednesday as key players converged for meetings and early preparations for the transition. Senate Republicans in the morning chose John Thune to succeed Mitch McConnell as GOP leader. In the afternoon, House Republicans unanimously elected Mike Johnson as their nominee for speaker&#8230;Read More<\/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-2460","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\/2460","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=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}