{"id":558847,"date":"2016-11-17T13:38:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=558847"},"modified":"2016-11-18T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T19:38:21","slug":"east-texas-congressman-meets-with-the-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=558847","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Congressman Meets with the President-Elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/01\/Jeb-Hensarling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/01\/Jeb-Hensarling-104x150.jpg\" alt=\"Jeb Hensarling\" width=\"104\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-237106\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON &#8211; Texas Congressman Jeb Hensarling, whose district covers some East Texas counties, had a meeting with President Elect Donald Trump. Hensarling said the two had a great conversation. He said he left the meeting energized by Trump&#8217;s vision to make America great again.  In a news releases, he said  the &#8220;President-elect understands that our economy is not working for working Americans and is nowhere near to reaching its full potential.  He is offering a bold, ambitious and forward-looking plan to create a dynamic and booming economy with more jobs, higher wages and greater opportunities for all the people of our country.&#8221; Some say Trump may be eyeing Hensarling for a cabinet position. He currently chairs the House Financial Services Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Texas Congressman Jeb Hensarling, whose district covers some East Texas counties, had a meeting with President Elect Donald Trump. Hensarling said the two had a great conversation. He said he left the meeting energized by Trump&#8217;s vision to make America great again. In a news releases, he said the &#8220;President-elect understands that our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=558847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas Congressman Meets with the President-Elect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"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-558847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 06:39:51","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\/558847","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=558847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558848,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558847\/revisions\/558848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}