Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Can Democrats Deliver Like Papa John’s?
It’s reminiscent of the old Avis slogan “We try harder” — a customer service contrast with Hertz, which was the No. 1 car rental company.
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Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Don’t Skip the Recess, Skip the Games
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2017 var rcrdTwitter = 1; When he made the call Tuesday, McConnell blamed Democrats for the need to work through the first part of the recess, pointing to
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Trump’s White Flag Signals Trust Problem
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2017 var rcrdTwitter = 1; Maybe it should be surprising that Trump is giving up so easily. Has he no other ideas for how to resolve the mess he’s in?
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Politics of Drug Policy
Sherrod Brown saying, “This bill takes away the No. 1 tool we have in the fight against opioids — Medicaid treatment.”
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Bickering Democrats — Still Mired in the 20th Century
But that doesn’t mean that every governmental initiative can be paid for by taxing “the 1 percent” or that all such soak-the-rich proposals represent wise tax policy.
Opinion · 115th Congress
A Note to Our Readers
The History of the Congressional Baseball Game, 108 Years In [jwp-video n=”1″] At Roll Call, our connection to the Congressional Baseball Game goes back more than half a century.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders and the Challenge of 2018
While Ossoff has raised a record-shattering $23 million, it would require more than $1 billion donated online to pull off the same trick in every contested House race in 2018.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: If Trump Wanted ‘Fast and Easy,’ He’s in the Wrong Job
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2017 var rcrdTwitter = 1; Not a monarchy Unlike monarchies, where the whims of kings dictated a country’s course, or pure democracies, which the Founders
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Trump — A President Without a True Party on Capitol Hill
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2017 var rcrdTwitter = 1; The snide interpretation is that Trump had no idea what was in the House health care bill that he so enthusiastically celebrated
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Pelosi’s ‘Medicare for All’ Problem
Conyers’ plan would require massive tax increases not only on the 1 percent but on the top 5 percent of earners.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Where Will GOP Be When the Crazy Train Comes Off the Rails?
The longtime GOP stronghold went for President Donald Trump by just 1 percent in November.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Why Congress Should Value, and Keep, AmeriCorps
I can vouch for the fact that a nation without AmeriCorps would be one in which the roughly 14.5 million children — 1 in 5 — currently living in families strained by poverty would fall further behind.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Trump Is Paying Back Corporations by Wiping Out Regulations
The GOP’s corporate donors want to kill these and other protections, and they spent more than $1 billion to get their way in Congress, a recent Public Citizen report showed.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Hints of a ‘Shop-’Til-You-Drop’ Presidency
Trying to dramatize the horror of $1 trillion in national debt, Reagan memorably said, “A trillion dollars would be a stack of thousand-dollar bills 67 miles high.”
Opinion · 115th Congress
Keeping America Competitive for Global Investment
In Texas, Korea-based Samsung announced that it plans to invest more than $1 billion in its Austin facility, adding hundreds of new jobs to the 3,000 employees currently working there.
Opinion · 114th Congress
John Glenn: The Hero Who Knew What Mattered in Life
Plot twist- the Man in the Black Hat was actually a grizzled, decades later version of John Glenn pic.twitter.com/kRcTA27nD0 — Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) December 8, 2016 var rcrdTwitter = 1;
Opinion · 114th Congress
Remembering John Glenn, Lawmaker
Joke No. 1 was as he was sitting atop the Atlas rocket waiting for launch, he realized it had been built by the lowest bidder.
Opinion · 114th Congress
Trump’s Living History as Our Third President from 1946
After the Soviets balked, the United States on July 1 conducted an atom-bomb test (the first since World War II) on tiny Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Opinion · 114th Congress
Democrats Should Pick Their Senate Confirmation Fights Wisely
There were rumors about alcoholism and (to use a euphemism of the era) womanizing plus grumbles about the $1 million that Tower had been paid by defense contractors after he left the Senate.
Opinion · 114th Congress
Hope for a United Future in America’s Divided Past
From the Midwest: The Real Bubble is Rural America] I was lucky enough to know Franklin McCain, one of the Greensboro Four who staged an iconic sit-in at that North Carolina Woolworth store on Feb. 1,