Opinion · 118th Congress
Nonprofit hospitals should act like nonprofits
In particular, the fair share deficits in six states — California, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois — each exceed $1 billion.
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Opinion · 117th Congress
It’s about more than one dinner and a man named Trump
the Right” rally and his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol (both of which were graced with Fuentes’ presence), should be a step too far, even for the former president’s No. 1
Campaigns · 117th Congress
So little Senate floor time left, so many Biden judicial nominees in limbo
Yet another was $1 billion — that’s how much the CR included to help low-income households deal with winter heating bills at a time when natural gas prices are, like seemingly everything else, climbing
Opinion · 117th Congress
Will Biden’s 2022 midterms be worse than Obama’s in 2010?
Republicans won the female vote by 1 point in 2010 despite Democratic claims that passage of Obamacare would sustain the women’s vote for the Democratic Party, after having won the women’s vote by
Opinion · 117th Congress
Can we just leave God out of it?
Lindsey Graham asked me to rate mine on a scale of 1 to 10, as he did Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, I would have to, as she did, refuse.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Democrats have few answers on ending losing streak after Manchin’s reconciliation dagger
But on student debt relief, the White House has been firm that payments must resume Feb. 1. Senate Majority Leader Charles E.
Opinion · 117th Congress
The world has moved on from debt ceiling gamesmanship
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced it would begin to consider on Dec. 1 a Mississippi case that could lead to the overturning of Roe v Wade next year.
Opinion · 117th Congress
When eminently qualified Black women get smeared (or every day that ends in ‘y’)
Garland has announced that the DOJ is reinstating consent decrees to reign in rogue police departments and going after white supremacists that Trump’s own FBI director deemed the No. 1 domestic terror
Opinion · 117th Congress
Independents will decide when Biden’s honeymoon is over
[jwp-video n=”1″] Still hopeful So Wednesday’s address to Congress has a lot riding on it, but Biden can take some comfort that, at this stage of a presidency, people are still willing to listen
Opinion · 117th Congress
As Democrats plot to overturn Iowa result, it’s déjà vu all over again
For those supporting HR 1, they might consider that a party so easily willing to overturn an election is not the party to “reform” our election system.
Opinion · 117th Congress
After four difficult years, let’s open government up ‘For the People’
John Sarbanes and input from across our caucus, we brought HR 1 to the floor and passed it.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Why Congress must pass HR 1 and the John R.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Sylvia Albert is the director of voting and elections at Common Cause, which has been holding power accountable through lobbying, litigation and grassroots organizing since
Opinion · 117th Congress
Republicans, if this isn’t impeachable, what is?
Article 1, Section 3, Clause 6 of the Constitution states: “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.” According to Judge McConnell, a trial is not limited to “sitting officers.”
Opinion · 116th Congress
The mock bravery of the Senate Eye Roll Club
[jwp-video n=”1″] Sasse and Cornyn, if he survives an unexpectedly tight reelection campaign, are likely to find themselves in the minority in the next Senate.
Opinion · 116th Congress
If you don’t like the Supreme Court, blame Harry Reid
[jwp-video n=”1″] They would also be responsible for establishing a court that would no longer operate as a separate branch of government, a safeguard against either executive or legislative
Opinion · 116th Congress
The Heedless Horseman Republicans and their COVID denial
[jwp-video n=”1″] Until recently, the greatest superspreader event in American history was a Sept. 28, 1918, Liberty Loan parade in Philadelphia as the influenza epidemic raged.
Opinion · 116th Congress
The cooling saucer and other Senate hooey
[jwp-video n=”1″] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has wielded the filibuster as a defensive measure while in the minority and pushed the rule change that lowered the filibuster threshold
Opinion · 116th Congress
Most Americans want to help Dreamers. Trump shouldn’t stand in the way
[jwp-video n=”1″] A permanent legislative solution for Dreamers is needed to ensure these benefits remain.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
It’s only June. The defining event of the 2020 election may not have even happened yet
[jwp-video n=”1″] Competing with COVID-19 But if I forced myself to think of events that could compete with COVID-19 and the George Floyd killing and scramble the election, I might think of
Opinion · 116th Congress
America — Halfway between hope and heartbreak
Powered by the Trump tax cuts that were cheered on by a united Republican Party, the federal deficit hit the $1 trillion mark in calendar year 2019.