{"id":309660,"date":"2017-05-25T02:51:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T01:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/congressmembers-speak-out-for-getting-the-us-out-of-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T02:51:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T01:51:39","slug":"congressmembers-speak-out-for-getting-the-us-out-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/congressmembers-speak-out-for-getting-the-us-out-of-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressmembers Speak Out for Getting the US Out of Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-29076\"><!-- .entry-header --><!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Today a news conference was held by co-sponsors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/house-bill\/1666\/titles?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22H.R.1666%22%5D%7D&amp;r=1\">HR1666<\/a>, to prohibit funds for activities in Afghanistan, and the importance of debating the 16-year war in Afghanistan, the longest war in America\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p><i>Attending were <\/i><br \/>Representative Walter B. Jones (R-NC)<br \/>Representative John Garamendi (D-CA)<br \/>Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)<br \/>Representative John Duncan (R-TN)<br \/>Representative Don Young (R-AK)<br \/>Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY)<br \/>Will Fischer, VoteVets<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FQtmSmOC6SE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For additional information, please contact Allison Tucker in Congressman Walter Jones\u2019 office at (202) 225-3415 or Dante Atkins in Congressman John Garamendi\u2019s office at (202) 225-1880.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/AWCBlog\/~3\/lSXKaOAP6Uc\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a news conference was held by co-sponsors of HR1666, to prohibit funds for activities in Afghanistan, and the importance of debating the 16-year war in Afghanistan, the longest war in America\u2019s history. Attending were Representative Walter B. Jones (R-NC)Representative John Garamendi (D-CA)Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)Representative John Duncan (R-TN)Representative Don Young (R-AK)Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY)Will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}