{"id":2430,"date":"2013-06-24T14:41:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2013-06-24T14:41:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:41:59","slug":"with-amendment-killed-rand-paul-wont-support-immigration-bill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/06\/24\/with-amendment-killed-rand-paul-wont-support-immigration-bill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"With amendment killed, Rand Paul won\u2019t support immigration bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kentucky Republican had previously been open to supporting the measure, which includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants that\u2019s contingent on bolstering border security. Paul introduced an amendment that would have required Congress to vote on whether the border was properly secure, but it failed to gain approval this week.<\/p>\n<p>Without that inclusion, Paul said definitively on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d he would be a \u201cno\u201d vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout some congressional authority and without border security first, I can\u2019t support the final bill,\u201d Paul told chief political correspondent Candy Crowley.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130624-123652\">With amendment killed, Rand Paul won\u2019t support immigration bill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kentucky Republican had previously been open to supporting the measure, which includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants that\u2019s contingent on bolstering border security. Paul introduced an amendment that would have required Congress to vote on whether the border was properly secure, but it failed to gain approval this week. Without that inclusion, Paul said definitively on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d he would be a \u201cno\u201d vote. \u201cWithout some congressional authority and without border security first, I can\u2019t support the final bill,\u201d Paul told chief political correspondent Candy Crowley. via With amendment killed, Rand Paul won\u2019t support immigration bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[890,1425],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-immigration","tag-rand-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}