{"id":25907,"date":"2013-10-09T01:19:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T04:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25907"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:35:39","slug":"senator-retains-hold-on-secaf-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/09\/senator-retains-hold-on-secaf-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Retains Hold on SecAF Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The confirmation of Ms. Deborah Lee James, nominee for Secretary of the Air Force, has been delayed (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/senator-wife-of-a-10-pilot-blocks-nominee-over-a-10-cuts\/\">previously discussed<\/a>)\u00a0as Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20131008\/NEWS05\/310080020\">continued her &#8220;hold&#8221;<\/a> over the issue of A-10s in the Air Force:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An aide to the New Hampshire Republican told Defense News on Tuesday that the senator felt the Air Force failed to sufficiently answer her questions about the A-10 plans. Therefore, Ayotte has decided to keep what&#8217;s known as a hold on Deborah Lee James\u2019 nomination, the aide said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ayotte has previously said she is concerned the Air Force would retire the A-10 &#8212; which her Air Force husband flew &#8212; without a suitable replacement for the mission.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The confirmation of Ms. Deborah Lee James, nominee for Secretary of the Air Force, has been delayed (previously discussed)\u00a0as Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) has continued her &#8220;hold&#8221; over the issue of A-10s in the Air Force: An aide to the New Hampshire Republican told Defense News on Tuesday that the senator felt the Air Force failed to sufficiently answer her [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[332,134,4303,5285,4302,2],"class_list":["post-25907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-10","tag-air-force","tag-deborah-lee-james","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-kelly-ayotte","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}