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Elaine Luria set an event for June 15 at Agua 301, a restaurant in D.C.’s Yards Park, and Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes is planning a July 9 event at the Delamar hotel in Greenwich, among others.
David Chipman drew criticism for his previous advocacy for gun control, such as banning assault-style rifles.
Action Fund dropped a $1 million digital ad buy this week in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire and West Virginia to urge senators to pass a big-scale voting and campaign finance overhaul known as S
Wormuth’s strong qualifications: During the Obama administration, she served on the National Security Council before becoming deputy Defense undersecretary for strategy, plans and forces and leading 2014’s
“I believe that gerrymandering from both sides is dangerous to our ability to govern this country,” he said at a Tuesday markup of an election overhaul bill dubbed S 1.
Justice Clarence Thomas pointed out that the 2010 law did not change the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986’s penalties for the lowest of the three levels based on how much crack cocaine was possessed.
Biden’s first speech to a joint session of Congress was marked by social distancing, and a lack of coordinated fashion, compared with 2017’s State of the Union, when many female lawmakers wore suffragette
Donald S. Beyer Jr.
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).
Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during the news conference outside the Capitol to announce the introduction of S 1, the “For the People” Act, on Wednesday.
Christened as HR 1 and S 1, both have top symbolic priority in their respective chambers. And vulnerable Democrats, such as Georgia Sen.
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.
The Democrats got their way on 168 of 176 party unity votes for a winning percentage of 95.5 percent, only topped in the 60-year history of CQ Roll Call’s study by 2019’s 96.2 percent.
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
/p> Those scholars have their reasons: that the Senate did just that in 1876 for the impeachment of William Belknap, who had just resigned as war secretary in the administration of President Ulysses S.
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.
Tom Vilsack, President-elect Joe Biden's choice to lead the Agriculture Department, faces opposition over his ties to corporate agriculture
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts, Mondaire Jones of New York, Marie Newman of Illinois and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Yet the threat holds little power.