{"id":51844,"date":"2022-08-26T11:28:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T18:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51844"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T18:28:05","slug":"raskin-launches-bid-to-lead-house-oversight-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51844","title":{"rendered":"Raskin launches bid to lead House Oversight panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The race for the top Democratic seat on the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee got more crowded on Friday when Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) entered the contest to replace the outgoing chairwoman, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maloney lost her primary race on Tuesday to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), ending a 30-year career on Capitol Hill and opening up the top panel seat in the next Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Raskin\u2019s decision to seek the spot pits him against two other, more veteran Oversight Democrats \u2014 Reps. Stephen Lynch (Mass.) and Gerry Connolly (Va.), who launched their candidacies on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race for the top Democratic&#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-51844","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\/51844","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=51844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51845,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51844\/revisions\/51845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}