{"id":31996,"date":"2012-09-13T17:48:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T21:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31996"},"modified":"2012-09-13T18:25:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T22:25:54","slug":"new-stolen-valor-passes-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31996","title":{"rendered":"New Stolen Valor Act passes House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-201_162-57512554\/house-makes-lying-about-military-service-a-crime\/\">CBS and Associated Press<\/a> report that the new Stolen Valor Act has passed in the House of representatives.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The House&#8217;s 410-3 vote on what is known as the Stolen Valor Act came less than three months after the Supreme Court struck down the original act on the grounds that it violated First Amendment free speech rights.<\/p>\n<p>The new bill attempts to get around the court ruling by making clear that it applies only in cases where people lie about a military record with the aim of obtaining payment or other benefits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if we should request FOIAs on those 3 who voted against it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/votes\/112-2012\/h575\">Their names are<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/georgemiller.house.gov\/\">George Miller<\/a> (D-CA), <a href=\"http:\/\/amashforcongress.com\/\">Justin Amash<\/a>, (R-MI), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paul.house.gov\/\">Ron Paul<\/a> (R-TX).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS and Associated Press report that the new Stolen Valor Act has passed in the House &hellip; <a title=\"New Stolen Valor Act passes House\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31996\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Stolen Valor Act passes House<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ron-paul","category-stolen-valor-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}