{"id":494843,"date":"2023-01-11T15:16:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=494843"},"modified":"2023-01-11T17:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:15:21","slug":"u-s-house-republicans-roll-out-a-slew-of-new-committee-chairs-to-steer-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/u-s-house-republicans-roll-out-a-slew-of-new-committee-chairs-to-steer-agenda","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House Republicans roll out a slew of new committee chairs to steer agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio will lead the sprawling and influential Judiciary Committee. (Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images) W ASHINGTON &#8211; U.S. House Republicans filled their top committee seats this week, choosing the leaders who will set the course for bills and issues for the new majority in the 118th Congress. The top gavels were doled out Monday by &#8220; making sure that our committees are represented by a full swath of our membership,&#8221; Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, said during a GOP leadership press conference Tuesday morning after majority lawmakers began the ratification process in a closed-door meeting. &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to wait until a bill&#8217;s on the floor to recognize that there might be an issue. You take care of those issues in committee and that&#8217;s why you want the entire conference represented, the different groups within our conference represented on the various committees, and we&#8217;re going to be working to do that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; U.S. House Republicans filled their top committee seats this week, choosing the leaders who will set the course for bills and issues for the new majority in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}