{"id":15605,"date":"2022-04-28T09:26:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15605"},"modified":"2022-04-28T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T15:09:24","slug":"andy-harris-joins-the-putin-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15605","title":{"rendered":"Andy Harris Joins the Putin Caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/img_5527.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/img_5527.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/img_5527-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>Nay votes on Moldova Resolution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>US Rep. Andy Harris joined 16 other Republicans in voting against a House Resolution \u201cexpressing support for Moldova\u2019s democracy, independence and territorial integrity and strengthening United States and Moldova relations.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moldova is a small nation just west of Ukraine where Russia carved out another pseudostate, Transnistria, much as it did in the Donbas and Luhansk regions in Ukraine, and Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia. Russia is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/04\/28\/transnistria-attacks-russia-ukraine-moldova\/\">now menacing it again<\/a>. Transnistria has a mixed, Moldovan, Russian and Ukrainian population with many now fleeing to Moldova proper fearing violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moldova recently elected a strongly pro-EU president and prime minister who are trying to reform and bring economic growth to one of Europe\u2019s poorest countries. It has taken in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/amp\/rcna25529\">more Ukrainian refugees per capita<\/a> than any other country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Harris\u2019s company in opposition to showing even moral solidarity with Moldova were Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2014all extremist anti-democratic members of the Republican Caucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Rep. Andy Harris joined 16 other Republicans in voting against a House Resolution \u201cexpressing support for Moldova\u2019s democracy, independence and territorial integrity and strengthening United States and Moldova relations.\u201d Moldova is a small nation just west of Ukraine where Russia carved out another pseudostate, Transnistria, much as it did in the Donbas and Luhansk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15605\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Andy Harris Joins the Putin Caucus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[1525,991,2514,2515],"class_list":["post-15605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andy-harris","tag-andy-harris","tag-first-congressional-district","tag-moldova","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-43H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15605"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15610,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15605\/revisions\/15610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}