{"id":972,"date":"2016-11-28T09:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T14:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2016-11-28T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T14:22:44","slug":"obama-stripped-of-power-as-midnight-rule-relief-act-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/obama-stripped-of-power-as-midnight-rule-relief-act-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Stripped Of Power As Midnight Rule Relief Act Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/yournewswire.com\/obama-midnight-rule-relief-act\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Obama-stripped-of-power-750x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><strong>Barack Obama has been\u00a0stripped of the power to pass any new laws or impose new policies, as the Midnight Rule Relief Act passed on Thursday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\u00a0Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/yournewswire.com\/obama-midnight-rule-relief-act\/\">Obama Stripped Of Power As Midnight Rule Relief Act Passes<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<p>The bill, passed by a 240-179 majority, amends the Congressional Review Act to overturn in a single vote any regulations Obama attempts to put through in his final days in office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/306564-house-passes-bill-targeting-midnight-obama-regs\" target=\"_blank\">Thehill.com<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) urged his colleagues on the floor Thursday morning to pass the legislation and tell the American people that lawmakers heard them on Election Day loud and clear.<\/p>\n<p>.\u201cThe American people have said no to the continuance of the Obama administration\u2019s policies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill guarantees that Congress can prevent any and all last-minute defiance of the people\u2019s will by midnight regulations that stubbornly seem to entrench the last pieces of the administration\u2019s bipartisan agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans are doing everything in their power to keep the Obama administration from enacting any new rules in its final days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama has been\u00a0stripped of the power to pass any new laws or impose new policies, as the Midnight Rule Relief Act passed on Thursday.\u00a0 \u00a0Source: Obama Stripped Of Power As Midnight Rule Relief Act Passes The bill, passed by a 240-179 majority, amends the Congressional Review Act to overturn in a single vote any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/obama-stripped-of-power-as-midnight-rule-relief-act-passes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama Stripped Of Power As Midnight Rule Relief Act Passes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}