{"id":17016,"date":"2013-01-23T20:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T01:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17016"},"modified":"2013-01-23T20:01:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T01:01:51","slug":"senate-dems-to-pass-first-budget-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17016\/senate-dems-to-pass-first-budget-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Dems to Pass First Budget in Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/on-the-money\/budget\/278751-murray-will-move-budget-through-committee \" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a> posted a jaw-dropping lead to describe just how broken is the federal budget process:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Democrats on Wednesday said they will move a budget resolution through the Budget Committee and onto the Senate floor for the first time in four years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite protests to the contrary, the move is in response to a House-approved measure to move the nation\u2019s debt ceiling back from late February to early May.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to applaud a group of adults for finally getting the regular budget process going in the Senate.\u00a0 Still, it\u2019s a sign of progress that a budget may actually be produced in accordance with federal law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill posted a jaw-dropping lead to describe just how broken is the federal budget process: Senate Democrats on Wednesday said they will move a budget resolution through the Budget Committee and onto the Senate floor for the first time in four years. Despite protests to the contrary, the move is in response to a [&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":[70,4008,84,81,178],"class_list":["post-17016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-ceiling","tag-congress","tag-debt","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016","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=17016"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17022,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016\/revisions\/17022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}