{"id":31548,"date":"2012-11-30T16:48:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T23:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/30\/gop-finally-finds-a-house-committee-chair-for-a-woman.html"},"modified":"2012-11-30T16:48:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T23:48:48","slug":"gop-finally-finds-a-house-committee-chair-for-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/30\/gop-finally-finds-a-house-committee-chair-for-a-woman.html","title":{"rendered":"GOP finally finds a House committee chair for a woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doesn&#39;t sound like a trivial job, to be honest, but it&#39;s also hardly something you associate with headlines, career advancement, fame, or prominent House leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/116234824425478706959'>Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats snicker as Republicans finally appoint a female committee chair:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/assets_c\/2012\/02\/clear-boehner-fuzzy-cantor-cropped-proto-custom_6.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/11\/women-committee-chairs-republicans.php?ref=fpnewsfeed'>Dems, Progressives Snicker As House GOP Finally Appoints Female Committee Chair<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter days of pressure from Republicans and Democrats alike, House Republican leaders finally put a woman in charge of a committee Friday afternoon. But if Speaker John Boehner and the rest of the Hou&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/REiQf6RPzw7' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doesn&#39;t sound like a trivial job, to be honest, but it&#39;s also hardly something you associate with headlines, career advancement, fame, or prominent House leadership.\u00a0 Reshared post from +Talking Points Memo Democrats snicker as Republicans finally appoint a female committee chair: Embedded Link Dems, Progressives Snicker As House GOP Finally Appoints Female Committee Chair After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/30\/gop-finally-finds-a-house-committee-chair-for-a-woman.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOP finally finds a House committee chair for a woman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10748,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/im_not_sure_im_that_disen.html","url_meta":{"origin":31548,"position":0},"title":"I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m that disenchanted with the mainstream candidates","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Jul-07 12:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some of the darker horses running for President. 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