{"id":9667,"date":"2025-05-26T16:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-republicans-hint-at-clawing-back-hiring-and-firing-power-for-congressional-agencies-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T16:21:21","slug":"senate-republicans-hint-at-clawing-back-hiring-and-firing-power-for-congressional-agencies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-republicans-hint-at-clawing-back-hiring-and-firing-power-for-congressional-agencies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans hint at clawing back hiring and firing power for congressional agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins thinks Congress needs to take charge in naming the heads of major legislative branch agencies, including the Library of Congress and Government Accountability Office. &ldquo;I think what we&rsquo;re going to have to do with some of these organizations &mdash; like the Library of Congress&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/21\/congress\/congress-weighs-hiring-and-firing-power-00362928\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins thinks Congress needs to take charge in naming the heads of major legislative branch agencies, including the Library of Congress and Government Accountability Office. &ldquo;I think what we&rsquo;re going to have to do with some of these organizations &mdash; like the Library of Congress&#8230;Read More<\/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-9667","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\/9667","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=9667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}