{"id":631611,"date":"2026-07-07T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=631611"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:51:00","slug":"congress-cant-require-members-to-show-up-or-quit-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=631611","title":{"rendered":"Congress Can\u2019t Require Members To Show Up Or Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/frozen-mitch-1200x675.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Senator Mitch McConnell freezes up at a press conference.\" \/>Members of Congress who wander away from the job face no immediate consequences, holding the seat long after they lose their ability to work.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/frozen-mitch-1200x675.jpg\" title=\"Congress Can\u2019t Require Members To Show Up Or Quit\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Congress who wander away from the job face no immediate consequences, holding the seat long after they lose their ability to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/631593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}