{"id":13059,"date":"2012-12-04T21:34:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T02:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13059"},"modified":"2012-12-04T21:34:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T02:34:35","slug":"reform-the-filibuster-dont-just-stand-there-do-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/12\/04\/reform-the-filibuster-dont-just-stand-there-do-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform The Filibuster &#8211; Don&#8217;t Just Stand There, Do Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received an email that says 238,000 have signed the petition at <strong><a title=\"Reform the Filibuster Web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reformthefilibuster.com\/warren\/\" target=\"_blank\">ReformTheFilibuster.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the first issues that Elizabeth Warren will be working on as our new Senator.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>Reform the Filibuster<\/h1>\n<p>Far too often, we&#8217;ve seen good ideas stall in the Senate because a single Senator can stop everything without a single word uttered on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>In a few short weeks, we can reform the filibuster. But it won&#8217;t be easy. And it&#8217;s going to require that the American people speak with one, clear, loud voice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take action now: Tell the Senate to fix the filibuster.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want Washington to respond to your needs, you have to make your voice heard more often than just at election time.\u00a0 Use the link above to sign the petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received an email that says 238,000 have signed the petition at ReformTheFilibuster.com. This is one of the first issues that Elizabeth Warren will be working on as our new Senator. Reform the Filibuster Far too often, we&#8217;ve seen good ideas stall in the Senate because a single Senator can stop everything without a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13060,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions\/13060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}