{"id":6126,"date":"2011-04-28T13:51:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T17:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2011-04-28T13:51:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T17:51:35","slug":"clyburn-says-compassion-necessary-in-deficit-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6126","title":{"rendered":"Clyburn Says Compassion Necessary In Deficit Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The No. 3 Democrat in the House said Tuesday he believes Congress and the White House can find a consensus on tackling the nation&#8217;s growing indebtedness as long as &#8220;a lot of compassion&#8221; is brought to the table.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>Rep. James Clyburn<\/strong> of South Carolina told MSNBC that government safety-net programs like Medicare and Medicaid must not &#8220;be shredded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clyburn<\/strong> is the highest-ranking African-American in Congress. Progress can be achieved in deficit negotiations, he said, &#8220;if sacrifices are, in fact, shared.&#8221; <strong>Clyburn<\/strong> also said he thinks Democrats are willing to give some on entitlement program changes so long as Republicans show a willingness to work on closing loopholes in the tax code that benefit the wealthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The No. 3 Democrat in the House said Tuesday he believes Congress and the White House can find a consensus on tackling the nation&#8217;s growing indebtedness as long as &#8220;a lot of compassion&#8221; is brought to the table. But Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina told MSNBC that government safety-net programs like Medicare [&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-6126","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\/6126","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=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}