{"id":146,"date":"2003-09-25T17:04:03","date_gmt":"2003-09-25T22:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/proof-that-congress-can-act\/"},"modified":"2003-09-25T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2003-09-25T22:04:03","slug":"proof-that-congress-can-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/proof-that-congress-can-act\/","title":{"rendered":"proof that congress can act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in an amazing demonstration of political will,  the house of representatives has voted 412-8,  with about an hour of debate,  to authorize the ftc to operate a do-not-call list within 24 hours of a judge&#8217;s decision to block implementation of the system.<\/p>\n<p>debate:  &#8220;does anyone here wanna piss off 51 million voters?&#8221; &#8220;well, not all of them are voters&#8221; &#8220;you wanna piss off HALF that many voters?&#8221; &#8220;good point.  where do i vote?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>can we get 51 million email addresses on a do-not-spam list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in an amazing demonstration of political will, the house of representatives has voted 412-8, with about an hour of debate, to authorize the ftc to operate a do-not-call list within 24 hours of a judge&#8217;s decision to block implementation of the system. debate: &#8220;does anyone here wanna piss off 51 million voters?&#8221; &#8220;well, not all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}