{"id":29063,"date":"2017-05-23T11:33:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T19:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29063"},"modified":"2017-05-24T15:23:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T23:23:12","slug":"congressional-news-conference-on-ending-funds-for-afghan-war-wednesday-524","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/23\/congressional-news-conference-on-ending-funds-for-afghan-war-wednesday-524\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional News Conference on Ending Funds for Afghan War: Wednesday 5\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FQtmSmOC6SE\">Here is the video of the news conference<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, May 24: Congressmen Walter B. Jones (R-NC) and John Garamendi (D-CA), along with House cosponsors of H.R. 1666, will host a press conference regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/house-bill\/1666\/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22hr1666%22%5D%7D&#038;r=1\">their bill to prohibit funds for activities in Afghanistan<\/a>, and the importance of debating the 16 year war in Afghanistan, <em>the longest war in America\u2019s history<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, May 24 &#8211; 1:30pm<br \/>\nHouse Triangle<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attending:<\/strong><br \/>\nRepresentative Walter B. Jones (R-NC)<br \/>\nRepresentative John Garamendi (D-CA)<br \/>\nRepresentative John Duncan (R-TN)<br \/>\nRepresentative Thomas Massie (R-KY)<br \/>\nRepresentative Don Young (R-AK)<br \/>\nWill Fischer, VoteVets<br \/>\nHouse cosponsors of H.R. 1666<br \/>\nALL PRESS WELCOME<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, please contact Allison Tucker in Congressman Walter Jones\u2019 office at (202) 225-3415 or Dante Atkins in Congressman John Garamendi\u2019s office at (202) 225-1880.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Here is the video of the news conference. Wednesday, May 24: Congressmen Walter B. Jones (R-NC) and John Garamendi (D-CA), along with House cosponsors of H.R. 1666, will host a press conference regarding their bill to prohibit funds for activities in Afghanistan, and the importance of debating the 16 year war in Afghanistan, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29074,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29063\/revisions\/29074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29063"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}