{"id":13957,"date":"2017-08-04T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=13957"},"modified":"2017-08-04T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:43:10","slug":"congress-just-recessed-for-the-entire-month-of-august-heres-3-things-to-watch-as-they-head-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/congress-just-recessed-for-the-entire-month-of-august-heres-3-things-to-watch-as-they-head-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress just recessed for the entire month of August. Here\u2019s 3 things to watch as they head home."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thumbs.mic.com\/ZTEzYzhmZDcxYiMvUC1xaVhIVjNUTEY5azBtRVllVko1Y1lsZVY4PS8weDIzOTozMDAweDE5MjYvODAweDQ1MC9maWx0ZXJzOmZvcm1hdChqcGVnKTpxdWFsaXR5KDgwKS9odHRwczovL3MzLmFtYXpvbmF3cy5jb20vcG9saWN5bWljLWltYWdlcy9sdDBxd2puOHNmNXVxdGVra2ozdGw3emJkY3QxMHR0Y2tka2hra3h1Mndzb3Zpejc3dWhpZWNjb2NjbWhqZjRoLmpwZw.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Right. So they accomplished next to nothing, and now go off on a 30 day paid vacation&#8230;that we&#8217;re paying for. Unreal.<br \/>\nCongress was not intended to become an elite ruling class, but thanks to the gold balls benefits package that most Americans would KILL to have, the lack of term limits, and the unbridled ability to accumulate wealth based on congressional voting record, they are the epitome of everything wrong with this country.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make Congress a part time minimum wage job that you can&#8217;t get reelected to, with no health benefits, no pension, and no paid holidays. Maybe then they&#8217;d get things done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2we1CeV\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2we1CeV<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right. So they accomplished next to nothing, and now go off on a 30 day paid vacation&#8230;that we&#8217;re paying for. Unreal. Congress was not intended to become an elite ruling class, but thanks to the gold balls benefits package that most Americans would KILL to have, the lack of term limits, and the unbridled ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-13957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15133,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/cutting-social-security-benefits-is-ok-with-54-of-senators\/","url_meta":{"origin":13957,"position":0},"title":"Cutting Social Security Benefits Is OK With 54% of Senators","date":"December 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"How would these Senators feel about cutting THEIR benefits? 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