{"id":1435,"date":"2012-03-19T08:06:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2012-03-19T08:06:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:06:45","slug":"mitch-mcconnellsenate-republican-votes-against-highway-bill-he-backed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/mitch-mcconnellsenate-republican-votes-against-highway-bill-he-backed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell(Senate Republican) Votes Against Highway Bill He Backed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McConnell\u2019s staff claimed, \u201cSenator McConnell has been working to pass the highway bill in the U.S. Senate, which is currently slated for a vote on final passage next week.\u201d A McConnell spokesman also told a Louisville, Kentucky radio station that the minority leader was working with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to pass the highway bill.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the vote, McConnell took to the senate floor and praised the lead sponsors, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) for their bipartisan effort. \u201cThey have worked together in a collegial way to bring us to this point on the highway bill,\u201d he raved.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, McConnell joined 21 other Republicans \u2014 and no Democrats \u2014 in voting against the bill. The House is expected to take up a similar version in April, rather than the far inferior House Republican version.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/03\/16\/446394\/mitch-mcconnell-highway-bill-flip-flop\/\">Mitch McConnell Votes Against Highway Bill He Backed | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McConnell\u2019s staff claimed, \u201cSenator McConnell has been working to pass the highway bill in the U.S. Senate, which is currently slated for a vote on final passage next week.\u201d A McConnell spokesman also told a Louisville, Kentucky radio station that the minority leader was working with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to pass the&#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":[26,920,27,196,944],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"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=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}