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Senate Democrats plan to take up next month their major voting and campaign finance package, known as S 1 in the chamber.
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Senate Democrats plan to take up next month their major voting and campaign finance package, known as S 1 in the chamber.
Fifty years and counting: The Atlantic takes a look at political-money reformer Fred Wertheimer, who’s spent five decades on the policy matter and is a “principal author” of Democrats’ HR 1/S 1 bill
Meanwhile, Senate Democrats moved forward with their first hearing on a massive overhaul of election and campaign finance laws, known as S 1 (or HR 1 in the House).
“One of the goals of S 1 will be a federal takeover of the election process,” said Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, a former chair of the Rules panel.
Christened as HR 1 and S 1, both have top symbolic priority in their respective chambers. And vulnerable Democrats, such as Georgia Sen.
The bill will be designated as S 1 to highlight its importance; the House-passed companion is HR 1.
Nobody dared to grab even a precinct and hurt Charles “Champ” Walker Jr.’s chances of getting elected. But Champ became his own worst enemy.
Christopher S. Murphy tweeted on Feb. 25. “We are going to end the filibuster in 2021,” California Democratic Rep.
On matters of policy, there’s little daylight between Democrats like Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut and his Senate colleagues in neighboring Massachusetts, Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren.
Christopher S. Murphy, fueling the Connecticut Democrat up for the rest of the day, while she dipped into the dried cranberries.
A real s-storm: As it became clearer that the nation’s political futures would hinge on election officials counting presidential and Senate ballots in Georgia, a urinal overflowed in a ballot-processing
President-elect Joe Biden used the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday to disclose his choice for a top Agriculture Department post.
Ulysses S. Grant’s family faced destitution until his autobiography, which he completed on his deathbed, became a bestseller through a marketing push from his publisher, Mark Twain.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Aides prepare Arizona’s s Electoral College votes to be certified during the joint session of Congress in the House chamber on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) A U.S.
“Each will wear a scarlet ‘S’ as a seditionist.” The following is a list of lawmakers who voted to reject votes from at least one state: House Robert B. Aderholt (AL-04) Rick W.
The three members to use it — Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, and Frederica S. Wilson, D-Fla. — had tested negative for COVID-19.
M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I: National Journal delves into Alaska GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s upcoming race in 2022, and why it may be more akin to Maine Sen.
Nathan’s notes With 2020’s Senate races in overtime in Georgia, and many months to go before House districts are redrawn with new census data, Nathan L.
And Donald Trump Jr.’s advisers have launched a new super PAC focused on turning out the president’s supporters.
“Tony Blinken is an A+ choice to be our nation’s top diplomat,” Senate Foreign Relations member Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., said in a statement.