{"id":3551,"date":"2007-01-21T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2017-12-07T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T19:04:48","slug":"senator-durbin-and-representative-biggert-support-barrier-to-nothern-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/21\/senator-durbin-and-representative-biggert-support-barrier-to-nothern-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Durbin and Representative Biggert Support Barrier to Nothern Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\" target=\"_new\">Undocumented carp<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator Dick Durbin and Representative Judy Biggert have introduced legislation that would approve funding for a barrier to stop the spead of the Asian Carp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[snip]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The carp have no natural predators in the area and threaten Great Lakes species by competing with local fish for food and habitat.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would authorize the Army Corp of Engineers to finish building a permanent barrier in the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal and study options to stop the fish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Asian Carp: They just eat the grubs that American carp won&#8217;t.  I know, some of you will point out that the nation&#8217;s carp are all <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carp\" target=\"_new\">immigrant carp<\/a>, but that&#8217;s not important.<\/p>\n<p>What is important is that the Democrats in Congress recognize the danger of unchecked influx from the south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undocumented carp: Senator Dick Durbin and Representative Judy Biggert have introduced legislation that would approve funding for a barrier to stop the spead of the Asian Carp. [snip] The carp have no natural predators in the area and threaten Great Lakes species by competing with local fish for food and habitat. The legislation would authorize [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","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=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18309,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/18309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}