{"id":7445,"date":"2012-03-19T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7445"},"modified":"2012-03-19T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T17:46:57","slug":"another-congressman-stands-up-for-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7445","title":{"rendered":"Another Congressman Stands-up for Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rep. Polis Signs Bahrain Arms Sale Resolution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) has joined 21 other cosponsors by signing on to H.J. Res. 80, which calls for \u201climiting the issuance of a letter of offer with respect to a certain proposed sale of defense articles and defense services to the Kingdom of Bahrain,\u201d originally introduced by Rep. James McGovern (D-MA).<\/p>\n<p>The resolution limits the proposed arms sale, requiring the Secretary of State to \u201ccertify to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives\u201d that the Government of Bahrain \u201cis conducting good faith investigations and prosecutions of alleged perpetrators responsible for the killing, torture, arbitrary detention, and other human rights violations committed since February 2011,\u201d among other measures ensuring the Government of Bahrain\u2019s compliance with international human rights standards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D7445&amp;text=Another+Congressman+Stands-up+for+Bahrain&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Polis Signs Bahrain Arms Sale Resolution Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) has joined 21 other cosponsors by signing on to H.J. Res. 80, which calls for \u201climiting the issuance of a letter of offer with respect to a certain proposed sale of defense articles and defense services to the Kingdom of Bahrain,\u201d originally introduced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7445#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2709],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7446,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7445\/revisions\/7446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}