{"id":1526618,"date":"2024-02-29T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=b527ba431ced27c7ad1adab7a188addd"},"modified":"2024-02-29T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:34:21","slug":"mcconnells-legacy-has-been-one-of-obstruction-says-sen-jeff-merkley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/29\/mcconnells-legacy-has-been-one-of-obstruction-says-sen-jeff-merkley\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMcConnell\u2019s Legacy Has Been One of Obstruction,\u201d Says Sen. Jeff Merkley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell announces he will step down as the Senate&rsquo;s Republican leader after 17 years &mdash; the longest term in Senate history &mdash; we speak with Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, who says, &ldquo;McConnell&rsquo;s legacy has been one of obstruction.&rdquo; He describes McConnell&rsquo;s &ldquo;aggressive&rdquo; use of the filibuster, the topic of Merkley&rsquo;s new book, Filibustered!: How to Fix the Broken Senate and...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/mcconnells-legacy-has-been-one-of-obstruction-says-sen-jeff-merkley\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/mcconnells-legacy-has-been-one-of-obstruction-says-sen-jeff-merkley\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merkley describes McConnell\u2019s use of the filibuster as having \u201cbroken the cycle in which government can function.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4705,463,29989,1753,30589,1265,1369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526619,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526618\/revisions\/1526619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}