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Capitol Ink | Filibuster Island

By R.J. Matson
Posted June 8, 2021 at 7:00am
Migrants are detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on May 21 at the border in San Luis, Ariz.

Sinema-Cornyn border proposal would hurt refugees. Congress should reject it

By Eleanor Acer, Karen Musalo and Laura St. John
Posted June 3, 2021 at 3:26pm
Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden is questioning how pharmaceutical company AbbVie has paid “a stunningly low effective tax rate.”

Finance chair investigating drugmaker AbbVie’s tax strategy

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 2, 2021 at 2:36pm
The corporate tax increase proposal in the president’s infrastructure plan would blunt the trajectory of our country’s economic recovery, Lincoln writes, and that’s why Congress should reject it.

A corporate tax hike won’t help us build back better

By Blanche Lincoln
Posted June 2, 2021 at 1:50pm
Many, like President Joe Biden, have spoken about democracy being in peril “here at home,” but there are reasons to believe voters will come to the rescue next year, Shapiro writes.

My uphill battle not to worry about our democracy

By Walter Shapiro
Posted June 2, 2021 at 6:15am
Billions of Brood X cicadas, emerging after living underground for 17 years, are encountering a very different Washington, Gonzales writes.

While you were underground: A political update for cicadas

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted June 2, 2021 at 5:30am
New Mexico Democrat Melanie Stansbury speaks at a campaign rally Thursday in Albuquerque, where she was joined by Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman.

Democrat Stansbury easily wins New Mexico House race

By Stephanie Akin and Eleanor Van Buren
Posted June 1, 2021 at 10:19pm, Updated June 2, 2021 at 9:35am
President Joe Biden talks with children Tuesday before delivering remarks at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Okla., to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

Biden puts voting rights in Harris’ portfolio ahead of Senate debate

By Niels Lesniewski and Kate Ackley
Posted June 1, 2021 at 6:43pm
Former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner, left, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016, is running in a special election that could offer clues into the depth of pro-Israel sentiment within the Democratic Party.

Democratic primaries will reveal party’s debate on Israel

By Kate Ackley
Posted June 1, 2021 at 10:30am
On policy matters, President Joe Biden isn’t facing the same level of stonewalling from Republicans in Congress that Barack Obama did, Zeller writes.

Maybe Biden is a moderate after all

By Shawn Zeller
Posted June 1, 2021 at 7:00am