{"id":1313,"date":"2012-02-14T09:56:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2012-02-14T09:56:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:56:28","slug":"rand-paul-blocks-senate-transportation-bill-over-aid-to-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/02\/rand-paul-blocks-senate-transportation-bill-over-aid-to-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Blocks Senate Transportation Bill Over Aid To Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It isn\u2019t often that legislation passes through the Senate free of controversy, but a bipartisan transportation bill was on a course to do just that \u2014 until yesterday. The bill, co-sponsored by Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA) and Republican Sen. James Inhofe (OK), easily passed a procedural vote last week and, with President Obama\u2019s support behind it, seemed ready to pass a final vote too.<\/p>\n<p>Then, yesterday, three Republican senators ignored Inhofe and Boxer\u2019s calls to keep the bill free from controversy and attempted to attach an amendment mandating the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which Democrats warned could \u201ckill the bill.\u201d Now, Sen. Rand Paul (R) has put a hold on the bill until leadership promises him a vote on an amendment that would suspend foreign aid to Egypt, Politico reports:<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/02\/14\/424749\/paul-blocks-transportation-bill\/\">Rand Paul Blocks Senate Transportation Bill Over Aid To Egypt | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn\u2019t often that legislation passes through the Senate free of controversy, but a bipartisan transportation bill was on a course to do just that \u2014 until yesterday. The bill, co-sponsored by Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA) and Republican Sen. James Inhofe (OK), easily passed a procedural vote last week and, with President Obama\u2019s support&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[508,248,336,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}