{"id":336857,"date":"2021-01-18T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=336857"},"modified":"2021-01-18T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T20:05:07","slug":"blanco-expects-fruitful-harmonious-working-relationships-with-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/blanco-expects-fruitful-harmonious-working-relationships-with-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanco expects fruitful, harmonious  working relationships with majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep.  Ivan A. Blanco (R-Saipan), who is now the minority bloc leader in the House of the Representatives, said they anticipate a fruitful and harmonious working relationship with the new majority group. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team intends to continue representing the voices of the underrepresented and underserved members of our community,\u201d said Blanco after his selection as minority bloc leader Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco thanked the members of the minority caucus for their confidence in trusting him to take lead.<\/p>\n<p>The minority is composed of eight Republican Party members and one independent. <\/p>\n<p>The majority is composed of eight Democrats, two independents, and one Republican. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Angel A. Demapan (R-Saipan), who is the minority bloc\u2019s spokesperson, said they are confident in Blanco\u2019s skills and abilities to lead their team in the 22nd House. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ivan A. Blanco (R-Saipan), who is now the minority bloc leader in the House&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":336782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}