{"id":39069,"date":"2021-08-24T16:29:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T23:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39069"},"modified":"2021-08-24T16:29:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T23:29:01","slug":"house-approves-john-lewis-voting-rights-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39069","title":{"rendered":"House approves John Lewis voting rights measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">The House approved the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on Tuesday in a party-line vote, kicking the legislation to the Senate \u2014 where it faces longer odds of passage.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was approved 219-212, with zero Republicans voting for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing is more fundamental to our democracy than the right to vote.\u201d Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.), a main sponsor of the bill, said from the floor during debate on the legislation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House approved the John R.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39070,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39069\/revisions\/39070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}