{"id":18761,"date":"2015-01-06T18:05:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T23:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=18761"},"modified":"2015-01-06T18:08:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T23:08:54","slug":"rep-stefanik-makes-history-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2015\/01\/06\/rep-stefanik-makes-history-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Stefanik makes history in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18762\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2015\/01\/stefanik-swearing-in.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18762\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18762 \" alt=\"Elise Stefanik takes the oath in Washington DC.  Photo:  Provided by Rep. Stefanik\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2015\/01\/stefanik-swearing-in-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2015\/01\/stefanik-swearing-in-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2015\/01\/stefanik-swearing-in-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2015\/01\/stefanik-swearing-in.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elise Stefanik takes the oath in Washington DC. Photo: Provided by Rep. Stefanik<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s official.\u00a0 The North Country has a new member of Congress.\u00a0 Tomorrow morning during the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour, Sarah Harris will have a full report on Rep. Elise Stefanik&#8217;s swearing in.\u00a0 Five years ago, Rep. Bill Owens from Plattsburgh was part of a huge Democratic wave in the nation&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Now Stefanik is part of a historic moment for the GOP and as the youngest woman ever elected to the House she&#8217;s expected to take on a prominent role within her party.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah reports that Stefanik has already been named to the Armed Services committee, providing her with a prominent seat to represent Fort Drum near Watertown.<\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: medium;\">\u201cI am thrilled and humbled by this opportunity to serve the wonderful people of New York\u2019s 21<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><sup>st<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0district,\u201d said Congresswoman Stefanik, in a statement<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: medium;\">.\u00a0 \u201cI pledge to be a strong voice for our community in Congress and to work my hardest to advance bipartisan solutions. Washington is broken and now is the time for leaders to work together on behalf of the American people. I am grateful for this incredible opportunity.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tune in for Sarah&#8217;s report tomorrow.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official.\u00a0 The North Country has a new member of Congress.\u00a0 Tomorrow morning during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13570,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18766,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18761\/revisions\/18766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}