{"id":3140,"date":"2024-12-02T14:48:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/grijalva-drops-out-of-race-for-top-democratic-spot-on-natural-resources-panel\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T14:48:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:48:47","slug":"grijalva-drops-out-of-race-for-top-democratic-spot-on-natural-resources-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/grijalva-drops-out-of-race-for-top-democratic-spot-on-natural-resources-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Grijalva drops out of race for top Democratic spot on Natural Resources panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Raul Grijalva has dropped out of the race for the top Democratic spot on the Natural Resources Committee, according to two people familiar with the matter, potentially averting a generational clash over the leadership position. <\/p>\n<p>Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who\u2019d been absent from Congress while going through treatment for cancer, had faced a challenge from Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), as House Democrats weigh whether to cast aside some of their most senior committee leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Raul Grijalva has dropped out of the race for the top Democratic spot on the Natural Resources Committee, according to two people familiar with the matter, potentially averting a generational clash over the leadership position. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who\u2019d been absent from Congress while going through treatment for cancer, had faced a challenge from Rep. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","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=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}