{"id":287989,"date":"2025-09-20T13:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=287989"},"modified":"2025-09-20T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:51:24","slug":"senate-unanimously-designates-kirk-remembrance-day-as-house-vote-divides-by-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=287989","title":{"rendered":"Senate Unanimously Designates Kirk Remembrance Day as House Vote Divides by Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan resolution on September 18 designating October 14, Charlie Kirk&#8217;s birthday, as a National Day of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=282797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Charlie Kirk Slain in Sniper Assault at Utah University\">Remembrance for the slain conservative activist<\/a>&#8216;s work on free speech and liberty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the House, a Republican-led resolution condemning Kirk&#8217;s September 10 assassination at Utah Valley University and honoring his legacy passed 310-58 on September 19, with all no votes from Democrats and 38 voting present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opposed the measure, condemning the killing but criticising it for ignoring Kirk&#8217;s controversial views on civil rights and voter access, while Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace decried the partisan split.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate passed a bipartisan resolution on September 18 designating October 14, Charlie Kirk&#8217;s birthday, as a National Day of Remembrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":282823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3807],"tags":[18113,11],"class_list":["post-287989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-us-senate","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287990,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287989\/revisions\/287990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/282823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}