{"id":8642,"date":"2025-04-29T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/connolly-to-step-down-as-top-dem-on-oversight-paving-the-way-for-generational-change-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:20:29","slug":"connolly-to-step-down-as-top-dem-on-oversight-paving-the-way-for-generational-change-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/connolly-to-step-down-as-top-dem-on-oversight-paving-the-way-for-generational-change-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Connolly to step down as top Dem on Oversight, paving the way for generational change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will step down from his leadership post on the panel and not run for reelection. The Virginia Democrat, whose constituency includes many federal workers, cited the return of his esophageal cancer &mdash; first diagnosed in late 2024 &mdash; as the reason for his planned departure&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/28\/congress\/connolly-to-step-down-as-top-oversight-dem-00312360\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will step down from his leadership post on the panel and not run for reelection. The Virginia Democrat, whose constituency includes many federal workers, cited the return of his esophageal cancer &mdash; first diagnosed in late 2024 &mdash; as the reason [&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-8642","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\/8642","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=8642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}