{"id":4071,"date":"2008-12-15T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/12\/domenici-closes-washington-office\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T22:20:00","slug":"domenici-closes-washington-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/12\/domenici-closes-washington-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Domenici closes Washington office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SUbYWdmHIZI\/AAAAAAAAJiQ\/oR6upwa9lTE\/s1600-h\/Domenici,+Pete.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SUbYWdmHIZI\/AAAAAAAAJiQ\/oR6upwa9lTE\/s200\/Domenici,+Pete.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280145493551686034\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/domenici.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Domenici\u2019s<\/a> Washington office closed on Friday, and Domenici gave his last radio news conference today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s the statement Domenici released in announcing the closing of his office:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis is a difficult day after all these years in the Senate, but I am upbeat about the change. I will be forever grateful to the people of New Mexico for sending me to Washington and for continuing to support me as I worked for them here,\u201d Domenici said. \u201cI have also been blessed over the years with a very loyal and talented staff, who worked hard to serve our state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI have met with Sen.-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomudall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Udall<\/a> and my long-time friend Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bingaman<\/a> and have told them I am willing to help them where I can to advance the best interests of our state,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, I again thank everyone. Nancy and I will look forward to a happy and blessed holiday season with family and friends before we begin the next chapter of our lives. God bless you all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A skeleton staff was to complete the process of closing Domenici\u2019s office today, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Meanwhile, you can listen to Domenici\u2019s last news conference with radio reporters from around the state by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/src.senate.gov\/public\/_files\/radio\/domenicinewsconf12_15_08.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Topics covered include life after retirement, an explanation of his final vote in the Senate &#8212; to allow a vote on the $14 billion bailout for the American auto industry &#8212; and the need for the Bush administration to come to the aid of the auto industry because the Senate didn\u2019t allow a vote on the bailout, and the proposal died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici\u2019s Washington office closed on Friday, and Domenici gave his last radio news conference today. Here\u2019s the statement Domenici released in announcing the closing of his office: \u201cThis is a difficult day after all these years in the Senate, but I am upbeat about the change. I will be forever grateful to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}