Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
Photos of the week ending May 14, 2021
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Campaigns · 117th Congress
Special elections in redistricting cycles: To play or not to play?
[jwp-video n=”1″] The Empire State subsequently lost two seats due to apportionment, and Turner’s district was parceled out to seven newly drawn seats and the largest chunk of his constituents
Congress · 117th Congress
Elise Stefanik ascends to House GOP No. 3 after Cheney ouster
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Congress · 117th Congress
Graham wants strings attached to debt limit bill
It would have kept lawmaker salaries on ice while the federal government was operating under a stopgap funding bill, in the absence of regular appropriations bills that are ordinarily due Oct. 1 each year
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Campaign finance-focused PAC makes first 2022 Senate endorsements
All five of the Democratic senators the group is endorsing have signed on as co-sponsors to S 1, a sweeping proposal that would overhaul campaign finance rules, redistricting, voting practices, and
Congress · 117th Congress
Gillibrand military sexual assault bill gets supermajority status
[jwp-video n=”1″] What’s more, the measure now enjoys, for the first time, the support of a majority of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which has traditionally fought the proposal.
Policy · 117th Congress
Congress must pass cyber notification law, top CISA official says
[jwp-video n=”1″] The question of what information private companies that suffer a cyberattack share with CISA and other government agencies was highlighted this week when Colonial Pipeline,
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
We started a podcast about ‘political theater.’ Then the term went through the wringer
Brandon Wetherbee, host of “You, Me, Them, Everybody” (Episode 1, January 2018) Gary Hart is driven out in 1987, not because the public decides, we will not have a president who’s had an affair.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Jaime Harrison says Democrats won’t cede South to GOP
HR 1 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act are so important and crucial to pushing back against these efforts to suppress the right to vote.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
For House members with higher ambitions in 2022, redistricting is a wild card
[jwp-video n=”1″] Ten years ago, Pennsylvania state legislators released a draft map nine months after receiving the census data.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
At the Races: GOP unChened
“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.
Policy · 117th Congress
Capitol insurrection forces military’s extremism problem out of the shadows
“Most of these groups are prioritizing military and law enforcement experience — and the numbers from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, where 1 in 5 people charged had military connections, bear that out,
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
Photo of the day: ‘You’re not you when you’re hungry’
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Policy · 117th Congress
Medicare cost crunch raises questions in telehealth debate
[jwp-video n=”1″] Most of those waivers expire once officials end the public health emergency, which gives Congress a limited window to act.
Congress · 117th Congress
House Republicans oust Liz Cheney from No. 3 leadership post
[jwp-video n=”1″] [McCarthy needs to rout Cheney to move past 2020] “I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office,” Cheney
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Wide splits evident on voting and campaign finance as Senate panel takes up overhaul
The bill, known as S 1, which passed the House as HR 1 in March on a mostly party-line vote, would require new disclosures of political spending, mandate minimum standards for such practices as automatic
Congress · 117th Congress
Earmark tally for highway bill: $14.8 billion
Garret Graves, R-La., asked for nearly $946 million for full federal funding for a connector project connecting LA 1 to LA 30 in his district.
Congress · 117th Congress
Texas duo top list of House appropriations earmark requests
Only a handful of members asked for less than $1 million. One is Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations ranking member Robert B. Aderholt, R-Ala., though he can probably rely on retiring Sen.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Is the era of small government over?
[jwp-video n=”1″] In polling conducted during 2007 and 2008, after almost eight years of George W.