{"id":49888,"date":"2022-06-27T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49888"},"modified":"2022-06-28T22:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T05:04:51","slug":"mcconnell-vows-to-be-picky-with-biden-nominees-if-gop-wins-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49888","title":{"rendered":"McConnell vows to be \u2018picky\u2019 with Biden nominees if GOP wins Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday warned that if Republicans win control of the Senate in November, President Biden\u2019s nominees will have a tough time getting confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McConnell says he\u2019ll be \u201cpicky\u201d in deciding which of Biden\u2019s nominees are moderate enough to warrant getting votes on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be way more picky over who gets to head various boards and commissions and agencies that are important to how all of you function in our society,\u201d McConnell said at a Rotary Club luncheon in Florence, Kentucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)&#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-49888","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\/49888","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=49888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49889,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49888\/revisions\/49889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}