{"id":399998,"date":"2015-09-28T12:43:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T17:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=399998"},"modified":"2015-09-29T12:43:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:43:18","slug":"hensarling-given-slim-chance-in-possible-run-for-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=399998","title":{"rendered":"Hensarling Decides Not to Run for House Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/th15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/09\/th15-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"th\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-400000\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; Dallas-based Congressman Jeb Hensarling, whose district includes much of East Texas, now says he will not try to become House speaker after John Boehner&#8217;s resignation announcement last week.   SMU political science Professor Cal Jillson says Hensarling likely tested the water and found he didn&#8217;t have enough support.  According to Jillson, &#8220;Hensarling already had an important committee chairmanship, of Financial Services, and so he has chosen to&#8230;try to&#8230;stay as chair of Financial Services rather than risk a long shot.&#8221;   Jillson says Hensarling angered some in the business wing of the Republican Party when he succeeded in getting the U.S. Import-Export Bank shut down for a time.  Jillson does think Dallas Congressman Pete Sessions has a good chance at becoming majority whip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; Dallas-based Congressman Jeb Hensarling, whose district includes much of East Texas, now says he will not try to become House speaker after John Boehner&#8217;s resignation announcement last week. SMU political science Professor Cal Jillson says Hensarling likely tested the water and found he didn&#8217;t have enough support. According to Jillson, &#8220;Hensarling already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=399998\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hensarling Decides Not to Run for House Speaker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":400000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 02:21:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400266,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399998\/revisions\/400266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/400000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}