{"id":8869,"date":"2025-05-06T02:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ocasio-cortez-passes-on-top-oversight-committee-position-bid\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T02:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:20:25","slug":"ocasio-cortez-passes-on-top-oversight-committee-position-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ocasio-cortez-passes-on-top-oversight-committee-position-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez passes on top Oversight Committee position bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday said she will not run for the top Democratic spot on the House Oversight Committee, passing on the opportunity as Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), the current ranking member of the panel, prepares to step down from the post. Ocasio-Cortez, who was seen as a potential successor to Connolly&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5284393-ocasio-cortez-passes-on-top-oversight-committee-position-bid\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday said she will not run for the top Democratic spot on the House Oversight Committee, passing on the opportunity as Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), the current ranking member of the panel, prepares to step down from the post. Ocasio-Cortez, who was seen as a potential successor to Connolly&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869","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=8869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}