{"id":979173,"date":"2023-02-01T20:18:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=156a89b4b434c267997ac7a933badd9a"},"modified":"2023-02-01T20:18:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:18:53","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-appoints-3-election-deniers-to-the-house-ethics-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/01\/kevin-mccarthy-appoints-3-election-deniers-to-the-house-ethics-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy Appoints 3 Election Deniers to the House Ethics Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-California) has named the five members of his party who will serve on the House Ethics Committee, three of whom have denied or questioned the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. McCarthy named as chair of the committee Michael Guest, a congressman from the state of Mississippi. He also appointed Reps. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), John Rutherford (R-Florida)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/kevin-mccarthy-appoints-3-election-deniers-to-the-house-ethics-committee\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new chair of the committee signed on to a lawsuit from Texas that sought to discount millions of votes in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10110,7461,3545,12919,19758,6177,56963,4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979173"}],"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\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979270,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979173\/revisions\/979270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}