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No More Blue Wave Metaphors: 2018 Is About Too Many GOP Fires [jwp-video n=”1″] In the case of Arizona, an independent redistricting commission drew the lines after the 2010 census, yet four
for the Senate that Roll Call couldn’t find another instance of that chamber jumping ahead of the House in passing spending bills dating back to 1976, when the start of the fiscal year moved from July 1
Hawkings’ Opus: 5 Reasons Why Congress is Broken [jwp-video n=”1″] MONEY “For the love of money is the root of all evil,” the Bible says.
Watch: 20 Years Ago, a Deadly Shooting in the Capitol Changed Life on the Hill Forever [jwp-video n=”1″] In July 1998, there was not much standing between the shooter, Russell Eugene Weston
Also Watch: Ryan Defends Jordan as ‘Man of Honesty and of Integrity’ [jwp-video n=”1″] Experience counts This will be the third sherpa assignment for Kyl, 76, a premier Washington rainmaker
Watch: Pelosi Praises Crowley and His Concession Following Primary Defeat [jwp-video n=”1″] Not chopped liver A member of the Democratic Socialists of America, Ocasio-Cortez campaigned for
ICYMI: Scalise Talks About His Recovery and Return to Baseball [jwp-video n=”1″] The Senate version of the Legislative Branch bill earmarks $1 million to boost protection of members when
He’s spent more than $1 million on the race — more than five times as much as the next closest Republican. (Hern loaned his campaign $700,000.)
Watch: The Many Ways to Draw a Gerrymander [jwp-video n=”1″] Packing and cracking In the Wisconsin case, Democratic voters presented a complex formula in seeking to prove their claim that
[jwp-video n=”1″] So Sanford’s message was altogether different from what he’d hoped: There’s even less political oxygen than it may have seemed for a candid iconoclast hoping to survive in a
Watch: Sanders Delegates Boo Clinton at Rally [jwp-video n=”1″] The allegation was true only to a limited degree, mainly because the superdelegates had just 15 percent of the votes on the
[jwp-video n=”1″] Boiled down to its essence, a discharge petition is a vehicle for a grass-roots majority of the House to propel legislation onto the floor over the objections of the committee
[jwp-video n=”1″] But he cannot get what he wants without Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley.
Look to the Money, the TV Ad Money [jwp-video n=”1″] Going for the record None of this year’s crop of viable namesake candidates would extend family political power into a third generation, which
From the Archives: RNC Day Four Highlights and a Look Ahead [jwp-video n=”1″] The color purple Bexar County, with San Antonio its anchor tenant, has doubled in population just since the early
Watch: The Prayer That Might Have Landed House Chaplain in Hot Water [jwp-video n=”1″] Challenging the authority and stature of the speaker, in other words, is a once unforgivable Capitol
Watch: Here’s How Three Ratings Changes Could Help Democrats in Their Quest for the Senate Majority [jwp-video n=”1″] It has long been a truism of Washington that the election years are not
Watch: Quitting Congress For Cash Is a Recent Phenomenon [jwp-video n=”1″] The most recent is Charlie Dent.
Dismantling This Senate Jargon [jwp-video n=”1″] President Donald Trump wants a similar “nuclear option” to create a simple-majority threshold on legislation, but GOP leaders have ruled that out
Watch: Three Questions About Ryan’s Future [jwp-video n=”1″] He is the most powerful apologist and enabler of an embattled and unpopular president whose judgment and polarizing temperament