{"id":3679,"date":"2024-12-15T07:21:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T07:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/inside-connolly-and-ocasio-cortezs-race-to-lock-down-votes-for-top-oversight-democratic-job-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T07:21:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T07:21:33","slug":"inside-connolly-and-ocasio-cortezs-race-to-lock-down-votes-for-top-oversight-democratic-job-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/inside-connolly-and-ocasio-cortezs-race-to-lock-down-votes-for-top-oversight-democratic-job-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Connolly and Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s race to lock down votes for top Oversight Democratic job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With days to go until House Democrats decide who gets top committee spot, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Gerry Connolly of Virginia are racing to lock down votes to lead their party on the Oversight and Accountability panel. Many Democrats saw Ocasio-Cortez as having the upper hand heading into next week&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/13\/congress\/aoc-connolly-oversight-fight-00194320\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With days to go until House Democrats decide who gets top committee spot, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Gerry Connolly of Virginia are racing to lock down votes to lead their party on the Oversight and Accountability panel. Many Democrats saw Ocasio-Cortez as having the upper hand heading into next week&#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-3679","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\/3679","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=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}