{"id":523959,"date":"2010-04-12T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81874"},"modified":"2010-04-12T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:00:51","slug":"1-lindsey-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523959","title":{"rendered":"1. Lindsey Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"bwrd\" title=\"Sen. Graham  (R-S.C.)\" href=\"http:\/\/lgraham.senate.gov\/public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-81877\" title=\"John McCain\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/graham-245x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"223\" \/>Sen. Graham (R-S.C.)<\/a> is typically regarded as a reliable  vote for his party, but he took the bold step of breaking with his  fellow Republicans to join Kerry and Lieberman to help author this  climate change legislation. Graham has been actively working to <a id=\"gdis\" title=\"cast the bill as a matter of energy independence and  national security\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/03\/01\/graham-youth-climate\/\">cast the bill as a matter of energy independence and  national security<\/a>, an easier sell to those that bristle at  environmental regulation. And once the text is released, Graham becomes  perhaps the most influential figure in this entire climate change debate  &#8212; the bill&#8217;s overall success or failure will hinge on Graham&#8217;s ability  to court those crucial moderate Republicans in the Senate who will  swing the vote towards failure or success.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/81883\/the-power-brokers\">Click here to replay slideshow.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Graham (R-S.C.) is typically regarded as a reliable vote for his party, but he took the bold step of breaking with his fellow Republicans to join Kerry and Lieberman to help author this climate change legislation. Graham has been actively working to cast the bill as a matter of energy independence and national security, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}