{"id":5145,"date":"2009-01-09T17:57:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T01:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2009-01-09T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T01:57:29","slug":"congress-lines-up-for-israels-war-on-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/congress-lines-up-for-israels-war-on-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Lines Up for Israel&#8217;s War on Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/2009-01-09-voa76.cfm\">Both houses of Congress lined up<\/a> in near-unanimous support of Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza.  Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/bloomberg\/20090108\/pl_bloomberg\/auhdubfcxloe_1\">the Senate passed<\/a> their version of the resolution without a single dissenting vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2009\/roll010.xml\">Today&#8217;s vote in the House<\/a> produced only 5 &#8220;No&#8221; votes:  Ron Paul (R-TX), Dennis Kuchinich (D-OH), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Nick Rahall (D-WV), and Gwen Moore (D-WI).   22 voted &#8220;present&#8221; and 16 didn&#8217;t vote.   <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2009\/roll010.xml\">See how your Congressmember voted.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c111:H.RES.34:\">The resolution<\/a> is totally one-sided, blaming only the Palestinians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both houses of Congress lined up in near-unanimous support of Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza. Yesterday, the Senate passed their version of the resolution without a single dissenting vote. Today&#8217;s vote in the House produced only 5 &#8220;No&#8221; votes: Ron Paul (R-TX), Dennis Kuchinich (D-OH), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Nick Rahall (D-WV), and Gwen Moore (D-WI). 22 [&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-5145","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\/5145","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=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5146,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}