{"id":22469,"date":"2013-07-11T17:05:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22469"},"modified":"2013-07-11T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:05:42","slug":"pres-obama-to-talk-economy-with-congressional-black-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22469","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama To Talk Economy With Congressional Black Caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Barack Obama met with Black members of Congress about the economy and other issues Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The White House says<strong> Pres. Obama<\/strong> and the Congressional Black Caucus discussed economic issues, immigration, implementation of Pres. Obama\u2019s health care law and voting rights. It\u2019s the first meeting between <strong>Pres. Obama <\/strong>and the Caucus since the Supreme Court last month stripped a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. <strong>Rep. Marcia Fudge<\/strong> of Ohio, who chairs the Caucus, called it one of the worst days in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>A caucus spokeswoman says all 43 members are scheduled to attend. The meeting comes as<strong> Pres. Obama <\/strong>is seeking to shift focus back to the economy and an immigration overhaul after two recent foreign trips and global crises that have diverted attention from his domestic priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Barack Obama met with Black members of Congress about the economy and other issues Tuesday. The White House says Pres. Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus discussed economic issues, immigration, implementation of Pres. Obama\u2019s health care law and voting rights. It\u2019s the first meeting between Pres. Obama and the Caucus since the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}