{"id":16634,"date":"2012-12-04T14:18:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T19:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16634"},"modified":"2012-12-04T14:18:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T19:18:39","slug":"new-north-dakota-senator-to-obama-%e2%80%9cyou%e2%80%99re-wrong-on-energy%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16634\/new-north-dakota-senator-to-obama-%e2%80%9cyou%e2%80%99re-wrong-on-energy%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"New North Dakota Senator to Obama: \u201cYou\u2019re Wrong on Energy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/12\/04\/15649841-ten-fresh-faces-to-watch-in-the-new-congress\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a> quotes U.S. Senator-Elect Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) from a campaign debate on what she would say to President Barack Obama about his energy policy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You&#8217;re wrong on energy. You&#8217;re headed in the wrong direction. You made bad decisions,&#8221; she said, according to The Associated Press. &#8220;You promised that you would promote clean coal technologies, that you would be a champion of coal, and you haven&#8217;t done it.&#8221; She also urged the president to replace Energy Secretary Steven Chu and EPA administrator Lisa Jackson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Certainly, that kind of independence helped Heitkamp eke out a win in a state Mitt Romney won by 20 points.\u00a0 Now that she\u2019s earned the right to speak her mind in the U.S. Senate, let\u2019s see if she\u2019s willing to make good on her promise.\u00a0 With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/2012-11-09\/coal-company-to-lay-off-156-workers-in-utah-ill-dot\" target=\"_blank\">coal industry staring at death<\/a> by a thousand regulations, the sooner the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News quotes U.S. Senator-Elect Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) from a campaign debate on what she would say to President Barack Obama about his energy policy: &#8220;You&#8217;re wrong on energy. You&#8217;re headed in the wrong direction. You made bad decisions,&#8221; she said, according to The Associated Press. &#8220;You promised that you would promote clean coal technologies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,2115,195,608,3955,3422,300,178],"class_list":["post-16634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-coal","tag-energy","tag-epa","tag-heidi-heitkamp","tag-north-dakota","tag-regulation","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16638,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634\/revisions\/16638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}