{"id":2935,"date":"2012-04-18T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:19","slug":"twelve-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2012\/04\/twelve-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve &#038; Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/congresspics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2937 alignleft\" style=\"margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px;\" title=\"Year that Current Senators Entered Congress\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/congresspics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/congresspics.jpg 340w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/congresspics-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Four Fascinating Facts:<\/p>\n<p>Dick Lugar, U.S. Senator from Indiana, is running for re-election this year.<\/p>\n<p>It would be his seventh Senate term.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lugar just turned 80 years old.\u00a0 He would be 86 when the term ends.<\/p>\n<p>One of the last moderate Republicans, Sen. Lugar&#8217;s idea of moderation was to vote against the repeal of\u00a0 &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell,&#8221; against the 2009 stimulus, and against health care reform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/congresspich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 15px;\" title=\"Year that Current House Members Entered Congress\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/congresspich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSen. Lugar is probably a nice grandpa.\u00a0 He should spend more time with his\u00a0 grandchildren, starting now.\u00a0 It is time for him to retire.<\/p>\n<p>As you see in these nifty charts I did (using data from Wikipedia), Lugar is just one of the nearly 200 House and Senate members who will have spent 12 or more years in Congress by the time its current session ends.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve years is long enough to do, or not do, whatever it was you promised to get yourself elected.\u00a0 Twelve &amp; Out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Fascinating Facts: Dick Lugar, U.S. Senator from Indiana, is running for re-election this year. It would be his seventh Senate term. Sen. Lugar just turned 80 years old.\u00a0 He would be 86 when the term ends. One of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2012\/04\/twelve-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28390,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/28390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}