{"id":29076,"date":"2017-05-24T17:11:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T01:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29076"},"modified":"2017-05-24T17:11:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T01:11:29","slug":"congressmembers-speak-out-for-getting-the-us-out-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/24\/congressmembers-speak-out-for-getting-the-us-out-of-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressmembers Speak Out for Getting the US Out of Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today a news conference was held by co-sponsors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/house-bill\/1666\/titles?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22H.R.1666%22%5D%7D&#038;r=1\">HR1666<\/a>, to prohibit funds for activities in Afghanistan, and the importance of debating the 16-year war in Afghanistan, the longest war in America&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p><i>Attending were <\/i><br \/>\n  Representative Walter B. Jones (R-NC)<br \/>\n  Representative John Garamendi (D-CA)<br \/>\n  Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)<br \/>\n  Representative John Duncan (R-TN)<br \/>\n  Representative Don Young (R-AK)<br \/>\n  Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY)<br \/>\n  Will Fischer, VoteVets<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FQtmSmOC6SE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For additional information, please contact Allison Tucker in Congressman Walter Jones&#8217; office at (202) 225-3415 or Dante Atkins in Congressman John Garamendi&#8217;s office at (202) 225-1880.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a news conference was held by co-sponsors of HR1666, to prohibit funds for activities in Afghanistan, and the importance of debating the 16-year war in Afghanistan, the longest war in America&#8217;s history. Attending were Representative Walter B. Jones (R-NC) Representative John Garamendi (D-CA) Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) Representative John Duncan (R-TN) Representative Don Young [&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-29076","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\/29076","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=29076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29077,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076\/revisions\/29077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29076"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}