{"id":151881,"date":"2021-01-06T08:14:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T12:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=151881"},"modified":"2021-01-06T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T13:41:15","slug":"congress-to-continue-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/01\/06\/congress-to-continue-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress to continue sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Congreso-Nacional-CDN-e1546862199262.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120784\"\/><figcaption>Photo: CDN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually Congress would be taking a break until 27 February. Yet, given the National State of Emergency, legislators are convened to work. The legislature is acting after the president of the Chamber of Deputies motivated a bill calling for both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies to remain in session while the country is under a National State of Emergency. The National State of Emergency is scheduled to end on 15 January, yet the Abinader administration has already requested a 45-day extension that needs to be approved in Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/legislatura-se-extendera-en-el-congreso-nacional-debido-al-estado-de-excepcion-JC23569918\">Diario Libre<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 January 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually Congress would be taking a break until 27 February. Yet, given the National State of Emergency, legislators are convened to work. The legislature is acting after the president of the Chamber of Deputies motivated a bill calling for both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies to remain in session while the country is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/01\/06\/congress-to-continue-sessions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151900,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151881\/revisions\/151900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}