{"id":42720,"date":"2025-08-04T08:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42720"},"modified":"2025-08-04T08:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:38:36","slug":"earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/08\/04\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Landgrebe Award Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"

I missed this one<\/a> the first time around, which was reported on July 22:<\/p>\n

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Republicans on Tuesday\u00a0proposed naming<\/a>\u00a0the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Opera House after first lady Melania Trump, with the lawmaker who sponsored the measure saying he wanted to honor the first lady’s “support and commitment in promoting the arts and humanities.”<\/p>\n

House Republicans tucked the provision by Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, into the bill that would fund\u00a0the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and other related agencies<\/a>\u00a0for fiscal year 2026, which begins in October. The House Appropriations Committee adopted it as part of an amendment in a 33-25 vote and reported the legislation out of committee in a 33-28 vote. It would next head to the full House for a vote. [NBC News<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rep Simpson is thus in the running for the ceremonial used soup ladle<\/em> that has been proposed as the trophy for those seeking to curry<\/em> favor with Mr Trump. Hopefully, his constituents will take note and celebrate his entry by voting him out of office at the next opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I missed this one the first time around, which was reported on July 22: Republicans on Tuesday\u00a0proposed naming\u00a0the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Opera House after first lady Melania Trump, with the lawmaker who sponsored the measure saying he wanted to honor the first lady’s “support and \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42734,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42720\/revisions\/42734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}