{"id":9171,"date":"2025-05-13T17:20:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/crockett-and-mfume-both-plow-ahead-with-house-oversight-bids-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:20:55","slug":"crockett-and-mfume-both-plow-ahead-with-house-oversight-bids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/crockett-and-mfume-both-plow-ahead-with-house-oversight-bids-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Crockett and Mfume both plow ahead with House Oversight bids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jasmine Crockett is telling fellow House Democrats she plans to run for her party&#8217;s Oversight Committee slot, plowing ahead with a bid after wavering last week, according to a text to lawmakers obtained by Blue Light News. &ldquo;I believe in deference &amp; frankly, the institution, but I recognize that the walls of this institution are collapsing around us and we are living in EXTRAORDINARY times&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/12\/congress\/jasmine-crockett-kweisi-mfume-house-oversight-00342907\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jasmine Crockett is telling fellow House Democrats she plans to run for her party&#8217;s Oversight Committee slot, plowing ahead with a bid after wavering last week, according to a text to lawmakers obtained by Blue Light News. &ldquo;I believe in deference &amp; frankly, the institution, but I recognize that the walls of this institution [&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-9171","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\/9171","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=9171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}