{"id":1594,"date":"2004-10-08T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2018-08-01T06:30:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T11:30:19","slug":"1594","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/08\/1594\/","title":{"rendered":"My Senator, Hard At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Jim Talent, R. MO, is putting his, erm, talents to work on issues of national importance: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/802743013A91DC3086256F2700160C07?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=A+pink+Arch+is+a+view+not+shared+by+all++\" target=\"new\">lighting the Gateway Memorial Arch pink<\/a> for Breast Cancer Awareness month:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><center>108th CONGRESS<\/p>\n<p>2d Session<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/D?c108:5:.\/temp\/~c108QByIHS::\" target=\"_new\">S. 2895<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AN ACT<\/center><\/p>\n<p>To authorize the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, to be illuminated by pink lights in honor of breast cancer awareness month.<\/p>\n<p>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,<\/p>\n<p>SECTION 1. ILLUMINATION OF GATEWAY ARCH IN HONOR OF BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of breast cancer awareness month, the Secretary of the Interior shall authorize the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, to be illuminated by pink lights for a certain period of time in October, to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior.<\/p>\n<p>Passed the Senate October 5, 2004. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Swell.  One of my two Senate representatives, purportedly of the small-government party, has wasted his time, his staff&#8217;s time, and other taxpayer-funded time not to mention sundry expenses to turn this idea into law.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s before we get to purchasing a large number of pink light bulbs or pink cells and paying maintenance people to implement them&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>But that Jim Talent, he&#8217;s <i>sensitive<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Jim Talent, R. MO, is putting his, erm, talents to work on issues of national importance: lighting the Gateway Memorial Arch pink for Breast Cancer Awareness month: 108th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2895 AN ACT To authorize the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, to be illuminated by pink lights in honor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20950,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/20950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}