{"id":5858,"date":"2025-02-07T09:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/committee-punts-on-kash-patel-vote-as-democrats-keep-up-the-pressure-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T09:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:20:29","slug":"committee-punts-on-kash-patel-vote-as-democrats-keep-up-the-pressure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/committee-punts-on-kash-patel-vote-as-democrats-keep-up-the-pressure-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee punts on Kash Patel vote as Democrats keep up the pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats took advantage of the rules of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to delay consideration of Kash Patel&#8217;s nomination to lead the FBI &mdash; but broke some recent precedent in the process. While lawmakers typically do a one-week punt on Judiciary Committee votes for an variety of reasons &mdash; from opposing a bill to nominees &mdash; rarely if ever does the panel meet in person to formally approve the delay&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/06\/congress\/kash-patel-fbi-confirmation-00202842\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats took advantage of the rules of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to delay consideration of Kash Patel&#8217;s nomination to lead the FBI &mdash; but broke some recent precedent in the process. While lawmakers typically do a one-week punt on Judiciary Committee votes for an variety of reasons &mdash; from opposing a bill to [&hellip;]<\/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-5858","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\/5858","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=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}