Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Groundhog Day in America
Watch: Leahy Questions Nielsen About Trump Comment [jwp-video n=”1″] Every day, cable news trots out talking heads, not to engage in useful political dialogue but to rile up the two party
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Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Civil Liberties and Odd-Duck Congressional Coalitions
Watch: Trump’s 2018 Legislative Agenda is Already Slipping [jwp-video n=”1″] Covering his bases?
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Women Who Could Take Back the House for Democrats
Stay tuned … Watch: Trump’s 2018 Legislative Agenda Is Already Slipping [jwp-video n=”1″] Roll Call columnist Patricia Murphy covers national politics for The Daily Beast.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Perils of Impeachment
[jwp-video n=”1″] Having lived through the Clinton impeachment as then-Speaker Newt Gingrich’s director of planning, I would warn Democrats, “Be careful what you wish for.”
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: With a Potemkin President, Maybe It’s Time for Congressional Government
Watch: Hastings Responds to Trump Shutdown Tweet — Put it ‘Under His Pillow’ [jwp-video n=”1″] Less is more?
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore, or Are We?
Watch: Nearly One Year Into His Presidency, How Congress Reacted to Trump [jwp-video n=”1″] Are there any lessons here for the federal government? Maybe.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: 2018 Could Be Oddly Productive
Watch: Welcome Back, Now Hurry: Congress’ Top Priorities for January [jwp-video n=”1″] Meanwhile, the Senate Banking Committee is moving a bill to fine-tune some provisions of the Dodd-Frank
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Why Oprah in 2020 Is Both Blessing and Curse for Trump and the GOP
Watch: Nearly One Year Into His Presidency, How Congress Reacted to Trump [jwp-video n=”1″] No line in the sand When the ultimate celebrity was elected as president of the United States in
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: We’re a Long Way From White House Aides With a ‘Passion for Anonymity’
[jwp-video n=”1″] Trumping Nixon Even the most deranged portions of the Nixon tapes do not contain a passage equal to this formal statement issued Wednesday by the president: “Steve Bannon has
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Will African-American Female Leadership Move Into the Spotlight in 2018?
Watch: ‘There’s a Big Step Between Marching and Running’ [jwp-video n=”1″] After Alabama’s special election for Senate last month, no one had to carry a sign.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Price of a Border Wall
But that’s chump change compared to the nearly $1 trillion in giveaways already embedded in the GOP tax bill. Yes, Trump would chortle that he won the most glorious victory since Gen.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Thinking Small When the Big Picture Looks Cloudy
Watch: Thunderous Applause as House Passes Tax Overhaul [jwp-video n=”1″] It depends on which predictions to believe, though most are sprinkled with partisan tinsel.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Only 2018 Political Tax Guide You’ll Ever Need
Watch: Thunderous Applause As House Passes Tax Overhaul [jwp-video n=”1″] Q: That’s much less than Ryan’s $2,000 example. What’s the deal here?
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Tax Cuts by the Numbers
Watch: Protesters Interrupt Floor Speech Before Tax Vote [jwp-video n=”1″] Republicans believe tax cuts spur growth, which in turn creates jobs, better wages and opportunity and will inevitably
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Commandments According to Roy Moore Take a Hit
Watch: Schumer Calls on McConnell to Delay Tax Vote Until Jones Is Seated [jwp-video n=”1″] It is telling that in Alabama, white evangelicals, including many church leaders, backed Moore.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Trump’s Alabama Attitude Adjustment
Watch: So Special: 4 More Special Elections on the Way, So Far [jwp-video n=”1″] Alabama was so reliably Republican that the networks (to save money) did not even bother to conduct an exit
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: One Year Later — Why 21st Century Cures Still Matters
Watch: David Hawkings’ Whiteboard: How Two Bills Become One Law [jwp-video n=”1″] Cures also provides the FDA new authorities and established an “FDA Innovation Account” so officials can
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Real Year of the Woman
Watch: Roll Call Reporters Discuss Covering Sexual Harassment on the Hill in the #MeToo Era [jwp-video n=”1″] One of those women is Andrea Lafferty, the executive director of the Traditional
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: How Debt Limit Drama Gets Resolved Is Up in the Air
situation, a group of Republicans reportedly met to discuss a possible “wish list,” largely focused on using the debt limit to reinstall fiscal discipline in Congress (after possibly adding more than $1
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Alabama and the Culture of Victimization
Trump carried Cullman County with 88 percent of the vote in 2016 and Moore romped home here by a 3-to-1 margin in his tight 2012 statewide victory for the Supreme Court.