{"id":38077,"date":"2015-12-19T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=38077"},"modified":"2015-12-19T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T21:45:22","slug":"clawson-on-omnibus-congress-is-not-listening-to-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/12\/clawson-on-omnibus-congress-is-not-listening-to-the-american-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Clawson on Omnibus:  \u201cCongress is Not Listening to the American People\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37004\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37004\" title=\"Clawson\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Clawson-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Clawson-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Clawson.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congressman Curt Clawson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the passage of the Omnibus Appropriations Bill by\u00a0Congress today, Congressman Curt Clawson (FL-19) released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday marks another missed opportunity for the Congress to deliver\u00a0on its promises\u00a0to\u00a0the American people. \u00a0I could not support yet another last minute, cram-down piece of\u00a0legislation, despite all the efforts made this last year to insure needed funding\u00a0for\u00a0projects\u00a0in the Appropriations process. \u00a0The vote today undermines\u00a0and tarnishes all of\u00a0that good\u00a0work with overspending, pork projects, and political favors.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cThis legislation will lead the country closer to a financial cliff, as Congress continues to\u00a0evade the tough spending decisions we were elected to make. \u00a0The day of reckoning can\u00a0no longer be put off.<br \/>\n\u201cOur national debt is now forecast to exceed $20 trillion by 2017. \u00a0The threat this poses is\u00a0increased as the Feds have now begun increasing interest rates, which will increase the\u00a0cost to service our massive national debt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a moral perspective, I also could not support any federal funding for Planned\u00a0Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a security perspective, despite the will of the American people, and despite earlier\u00a0legislation passed in the House, the Omnibus legislation does nothing to pause or halt\u00a0funding for the flow of Syrian refugees into our nation, at a time when our citizens are\u00a0deeply concerned about America\u2019s homeland security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is\u00a0long past\u00a0time to end \u2018business as usual\u2019 on Capitol Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the passage of the Omnibus Appropriations Bill by\u00a0Congress today, Congressman Curt Clawson (FL-19) released the following statement: \u201cToday marks another missed opportunity for the Congress to deliver\u00a0on its promises\u00a0to\u00a0the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}