{"id":3071,"date":"2015-01-18T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2015-01-18T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T11:52:29","slug":"congress-embraces-internet-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=3071","title":{"rendered":"Congress Embraces Internet Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><b>Congress Embraces Internet Technology<br \/>\nIn Campaign Finance Reform<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Priceline.com&#8217;s stock soared and eBay created an entire new section on their online auction site to accommodate the US Congress&#8217; overhaul of campaign financial law.<\/p>\n<p>Senator John McCain, in a speech from Capitol Hill, praised his fellow Senators&#8217;s choice to &#8220;name your own price&#8221; for Congressional influence. &#8220;This is significant legislation that will turn around a stagnant economy by pouring millions into politicians&#8217; pockets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the new law, private citizens will be able to log onto Priceline.com and &#8220;name their own price&#8221; to influence a member of the House. Citizens wishing to purchase a Senator need to logon to Ebay.<\/p>\n<p>William Jefferson Clinton has replaced William Shatner as spokesman for the new Congressional Priceline. In an &#8220;off-camera&#8221; remark, as Mr. Clinton held his crotch, he said, &#8220;This is going to be *big*, really *big*.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress Embraces Internet Technology In Campaign Finance Reform Priceline.com&#8217;s stock soared and eBay created an entire new section on their online auction site to accommodate the US Congress&#8217; overhaul of campaign financial law. Senator John McCain, in a speech from Capitol Hill, praised his fellow Senators&#8217;s choice to &#8220;name your own price&#8221; for Congressional influence. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[419,567,1193],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-congress","tag-ebay","tag-priceline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}