{"id":105926,"date":"2017-12-02T14:34:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T12:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/how-mcconnell-kept-republicans-in-line-to-win-senate-tax-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-12-02T14:34:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T12:34:54","slug":"how-mcconnell-kept-republicans-in-line-to-win-senate-tax-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/how-mcconnell-kept-republicans-in-line-to-win-senate-tax-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"How McConnell kept Republicans in line to win Senate tax bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/how-mcconnell-kept-republicans-in-line-to-win-senate-tax-bill\/\">How McConnell kept Republicans in line to win Senate tax bill<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><strong>How McConnell kept Republicans in line to win Senate tax bill:<\/strong> When Republicans tried to repeal and replace Obamacare over the summer, they acted like \u201ca bunch of free range chickens&#8221;, said Republican Senator John Kennedy. &#8220;Everybody was upset, tired, mad, people drawing lines in the dirt.&#8221; Not this time. 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The government&#8217;s move on Friday evening to enact the nationwide curfew for 10 days and expand powers for the army and police was criticized by <\/p>\n<p>Click HERE to submit your Johannesburg or Gauteng Press Release to MyPR.co.za.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News from Africa<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"apo-widget-container\"><\/div>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/how-mcconnell-kept-republicans-in-line-to-win-senate-tax-bill\/\">MyJHB<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\">MyJHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the fun:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\">Add Your event<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\">Submit a Press Release<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/directory\/\">Add your listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How McConnell kept Republicans in line to win Senate tax bill: How McConnell kept Republicans in line to win Senate tax bill: When Republicans tried to repeal and replace Obamacare over the summer, they acted like \u201ca bunch of free range chickens&#8221;, said Republican Senator John Kennedy. &#8220;Everybody was upset, tired, mad, people drawing lines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[4253,18943,5622,28447,22624,28448],"class_list":{"0":"post-105926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-bill","8":"tag-kept","9":"tag-line","10":"tag-mcconnell","11":"tag-republicans","12":"tag-senate","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}