{"id":2816,"date":"2013-07-20T13:52:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2013-07-20T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T13:52:15","slug":"hastert-rule-has-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2816","title":{"rendered":"Hastert Rule has to go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The San Antonio Express-News has editorialized wisely in calling for the end to the Hastert Rule.<\/p>\n<p>The link to the editorial is here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article\/Hastert-rule-undercuts-democracy-4660269.php\">http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article\/Hastert-rule-undercuts-democracy-4660269.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. House Speaker John Boehner is going to invoke the rule before allowing the House to vote on immigration reform. The rule &#8212; named after former Speaker Dennis Hastert &#8212; requires a majority of Republican\u00a0House members to favor a bill before it goes to a vote. Never mind that the bill already has a majority of support among the entire body, which includes Democrats. Most GOP members have to agreed to it, according to Boehner.<\/p>\n<p>Suspend the rule, Mr. Speaker, and let the House vote on whether to reform the nation&#8217;s broken-down immigration system.<\/p>\n<p>Look at it this way, Mr. Speaker: Your GOP colleagues in the Texas Senate suspended its own two-thirds rule to vote on a bill restricting abortion in Texas. If they can bend the rules here in the Lone Star State, you can do it on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Antonio Express-News has editorialized wisely in calling for the end to the Hastert Rule. The link to the editorial is here: http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article\/Hastert-rule-undercuts-democracy-4660269.php U.S. House Speaker John Boehner is going to invoke the rule before allowing the House to vote on immigration reform. The rule &#8212; named after former Speaker Dennis Hastert &#8212; requires &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hastert Rule has to go<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2183,2523,3655],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-john-boehner","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}