{"id":2498,"date":"2016-04-04T21:41:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T13:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/04\/john-oliver-explains-why-congress-spends-all-its-time-raising-money-for-congress\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T21:41:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T13:41:58","slug":"john-oliver-explains-why-congress-spends-all-its-time-raising-money-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/04\/john-oliver-explains-why-congress-spends-all-its-time-raising-money-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver explains why Congress spends all its time raising money for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No, John Oliver’s latest Last Week Tonight<\/i>\u00a0deep dive doesn’t focus on\u00a0how money corrupts presidential candidates. (For that, Oliver said, you simply turn to “your most annoying friend’s Facebook page.”)<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, he takes a long, hard look at how and why members of Congress spend a staggering amount of time \u2014 up to two-thirds of it<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 raising money.<\/span><\/p>\n

Spoiler: It’s not pretty. Constituents hate it; even Congresspeople hate it. But “w<\/span>hile both sides agree they hate this,” Oliver said, “neither wants to unilaterally back down first.” Which means, you guessed it, nothing ends up changing. Happy Monday!<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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No, John Oliver’s latest Last Week Tonight\u00a0deep dive doesn’t focus on\u00a0how money corrupts presidential candidates. (For that, Oliver said, you simply turn to “your most annoying friend’s Facebook page.”) Instead, he takes a long, hard look at how and why … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}