{"id":19729,"date":"2015-03-07T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19729"},"modified":"2015-03-07T22:01:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T03:01:20","slug":"house-democrat-introduces-bill-to-end-all-government-shutdowns-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/07\/house-democrat-introduces-bill-to-end-all-government-shutdowns-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrat Introduces Bill to End All Government Shutdowns \u2014 Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ready For Warren<\/em> has a <a title=\"Ready For Warren Facebook Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ReadyForWarren\/posts\/1094939060532162\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook post<\/a> highlighting the <em>Occupy Democrats<\/em>&#8216; article <a title=\"Occupy democrats article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.occupydemocrats.com\/house-democrat-introduces-bill-to-end-all-government-shutdowns-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\">House Democrat Introduces Bill to End All Government Shutdowns \u2014 Forever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) has a solution, and he is currently seeking co-sponsors for a bill that would \u201cshut down the shutdowns.\u201d Grayson\u2019s bill would \u201cautomatically extend existing appropriations levels for another fiscal year whenever Congress fails to fund agencies before their money expires,\u201d according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/wp\/2015\/03\/05\/tired-of-shutdown-battles-this-bill-would-end-them-for-good\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/wp\/2015\/03\/05\/tired-of-shutdown-battles-this-bill-would-end-them-for-good\/\" title=\"The Washington Post article\" target=\"_blank\">Tired of shutdown battles? This bill would end them for good<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) said this week that he is seeking co-sponsors for a \u201cShut Down the Shutdowns Act\u201d that would automatically extend existing appropriations levels for another fiscal year whenever Congress fails to fund agencies before their money expires.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some people complain about what can&#8217;t be done, while others file legislation that tries to get those things done.  Less complaining, and more doing might actually change something.  Occupy Democrats only asked us to spread the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready For Warren has a Facebook post highlighting the Occupy Democrats&#8216; article House Democrat Introduces Bill to End All Government Shutdowns \u2014 Forever. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) has a solution, and he is currently seeking co-sponsors for a bill that would \u201cshut down the shutdowns.\u201d Grayson\u2019s bill would \u201cautomatically extend existing appropriations levels for another [&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":{"0":"post-19729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729","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=19729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19731,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729\/revisions\/19731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}