{"id":9071,"date":"2025-05-11T12:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/citing-seniority-concerns-jasmine-crockett-wavers-on-oversight-run-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:24:12","slug":"citing-seniority-concerns-jasmine-crockett-wavers-on-oversight-run-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/citing-seniority-concerns-jasmine-crockett-wavers-on-oversight-run-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing seniority concerns, Jasmine Crockett wavers on Oversight run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jasmine Crockett said she would &#8220;rethink&#8221; whether to pursue a bid for the top Democratic job on the House Oversight Committee after a more senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Kweisi Mfume, said he might seek the post. &ldquo;I always wanted to make sure that the Black Caucus is as strong as possible&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/08\/congress\/crockett-wavers-on-oversight-run-00335535\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jasmine Crockett said she would &#8220;rethink&#8221; whether to pursue a bid for the top Democratic job on the House Oversight Committee after a more senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Kweisi Mfume, said he might seek the post. &ldquo;I always wanted to make sure that the Black Caucus is as strong as [&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-9071","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\/9071","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=9071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}