{"id":31688,"date":"2021-02-04T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=31688?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2021-02-04T05:02:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T12:02:04","slug":"tester-selected-as-chair-of-senate-veterans-affairs-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2021\/02\/04\/tester-selected-as-chair-of-senate-veterans-affairs-committee\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Tester Selected As Chair Of Senate  Veterans Affairs Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of serving Montana\u2019s  veterans and fighting to deliver quality care and benefits to the nation\u2019s men and women  in uniform, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., will take over the gavel as chairman of the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee  in the new Congress. Tester led his first hearing on Thursday, Jan. 28, as chairman on the pending nomination of Denis R. McDonough to be Secretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31706,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688\/revisions\/31706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31688"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=31688"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=31688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}