{"id":643597,"date":"2010-01-26T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74814"},"modified":"2010-01-26T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:23:06","slug":"mike-pence-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99ve-never-met-a-spending-freeze-i-didn%e2%80%99t-like%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/643597","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pence: \u2018I\u2019ve Never Met a Spending Freeze I Didn\u2019t Like\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a luncheon held at the Heritage Foundation, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) was cautiously open to the idea of a three-year non-defense discretionary spending freeze floated last night by the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never met a spending freeze I didn&#8217;t like,&#8221; said Pence. The first he&#8217;d heard of the concept, he said, came at a December 2009 meeting at the White House when Republicans suggested it. Rather than dismissing the idea as a political stunt, Pence was ready to take some ownership of it. &#8220;I&#8217;d welcome a sincere attempt at a spending freeze.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pence also joked a bit about how the media covered conservatives. &#8220;The New York Times reported that there were a few thousand on the mall on 9\/12,&#8221; said Pence. &#8220;Fox News reported that there were a billion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a luncheon held at the Heritage Foundation, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) was cautiously open to the idea of a three-year non-defense discretionary spending freeze floated last night by the White House. &#8220;I never met a spending freeze I didn&#8217;t like,&#8221; said Pence. The first he&#8217;d heard of the concept, he said, came at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2HqB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}