{"id":903,"date":"2005-01-08T13:57:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T18:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=903"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:29","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:29","slug":"protecting_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/08\/protecting_the\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting the Homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days after being sworn in to office, Bobby Jindal has received his congressional committee assignments.  Chief amongst them will be his presence on the Homeland Security Committee, which is a newly created one.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnetwork.org\/news\/world\/world.asp?id=14679\" target=\"_blank\">From Sunnetwork.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;I am thrilled by my committee assignments,&#8221; Jindal, only the second Indian American to be elected to the US House of Representatives, said after receiving his official committee assignments yesterday. &#8220;I have been given three great opportunities and in each capacity I will have the chance to hear and weigh-in on issues of great importance to this country and the people of Louisiana&#8221; (his contituency). \n<br>\n<br>\n&#8220;<b>In this post 9\/11 world, there is nothing more important than ensuring the safety of America and Americans<\/b>,&#8221; Jindal said. &#8220;We need to make sure America is a country where our children don&#8217;t have to grow up and live in fear of terrorism.&#8221; \n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>His other assignments include the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Resources.  <b>These assignments took me by surprise <\/b>considering the fact the Jindal has been known mostly for his healthcare expertise (best applied to the Health Committee).  An assignment on a prominent committee probably means that the &#8220;Big Tent&#8221; party will be grooming him for high visibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after being sworn in to office, Bobby Jindal has received his congressional committee assignments. Chief amongst them will be his presence on the Homeland Security Committee, which is a newly created one. From Sunnetwork.org: &#8220;I am thrilled by my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/08\/protecting_the\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}