{"id":5450,"date":"2009-01-09T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=5450"},"modified":"2009-01-09T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:59:09","slug":"is-congress-moving-toward-the-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/01\/09\/is-congress-moving-toward-the-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Congress Moving Toward the Center?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest010909\/2009_01_09_carpenter.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest010909\/2009_01_09_uprising.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/01\/06\/us\/06senate2-600.jpg\" alt=\"congress\" \/>In yesterday&#8217;s speech about the economy, President-elect Barack Obama Obama emphasized the urgency of Congress needing to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, before its too late. Millions of Americans voted for drastic change in the White House when they picked Obama for President last November. But what Obama can achieve is limited by how his Democratic allies in Congress vote. The November 2008 elections resulted in new Democratic Party members of the Senate and House, that by some accounts, will actually tilt the party majority closer to the center than the left. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Tim Carpenter, Co-founder and Director of Progressive Democrats of America<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdamerica.org\">www.pdamerica.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program In yesterday&#8217;s speech about the economy, President-elect Barack Obama Obama emphasized the urgency of Congress needing to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, before its too late. Millions of Americans voted for drastic change in the White House when they picked Obama for President last November. But what Obama can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-up","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}