Opinion · 118th Congress
House Freedom Caucus goes full ‘swamp’
Matt Gaetz of Florida, boasted during a Jan. 6 Fox News appearance that he had run out of things to demand McCarthy give up in return for cooperation to secure the speakership.
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Opinion · 117th Congress
It’s time for a Christmas truce in the COVID wars
Can you grasp how small $9.25 billion is as part of a nearly $6 trillion federal budget? Or against the backdrop of the $31 trillion national debt?
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Fight club: As Democrats urge Biden to show some moxie, AOC’s ‘vigor’ offers an example
Why nobody knows incredible econ story & it took Jan 6 hearings for many to realize how bats*t GOP is..
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Trump sent his supporters to the Capitol. They are still fighting ‘like hell’ and following his example
The most high-profile example of what Trump has sown is the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, moments before which Trump told a charged-up crowd of his MAGA backers to head over to the legislative hub and
Opinion · 117th Congress
Recession or no recession: Who’s a voter to believe?
In other words, we need two years of 7.5 percent unemployment or five years of 6 percent unemployment or one year of 10 percent unemployment.” Tough medicine.
Opinion · 117th Congress
What did Trump know, and when did he know it?
But these days, there is a cynical attitude that nothing will change with the Jan. 6 hearings.
Opinion · 117th Congress
An Rx for politicians — full medical disclosure
Unlike cookie-cutter candidates from central casting, the 6-foot-8, amply tattooed Fetterman is selling his unorthodox blue-collar persona as much as specific issue positions.
Opinion · 117th Congress
What happens to America when optimism dies?
talking about his GOP House colleagues, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, and their waffling about complying with subpoenas from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6,
Opinion · 117th Congress
In-person lobbying is here to stay
More than seven months after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, added security fencing has come down.
Opinion · 117th Congress
‘Punching down,’ the political weapon of so-called tough guys
While not approving of the violent Jan. 6 insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol, McCarthy tried to block an investigation of the attack and said he ignored the testimony of brutalized police officers
Opinion · 117th Congress
Kids need schools open. So does the economy
also found that students “currently in grades K-5 from disadvantaged backgrounds will have on average 10.9 percent lower labor income in 2050 than was expected before the closures, while those in grades 6-
Opinion · 117th Congress
We can’t wait for the pandemic to end to fight the opioid overdose surge
Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., to more effectively confront one of the biggest drivers in the overdose spike — illicitly manufactured fentanyl — and address a looming deadline on May 6.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Republicans, if this isn’t impeachable, what is?
On Jan. 6, 2021, at 2:24 p.m., an angry Donald Trump tweeted: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution …” At that very moment
Opinion · 117th Congress
Companies are abandoning anti-democratic politicians, but they shouldn’t abandon their PACs
In the wake of the events of Jan. 6, about 50 companies have now announced they are banning contributions to the 147 legislators in question or taking a pause from making PAC donations or, in a few
Opinion · 116th Congress
To honor John Lewis, and our democracy, restore the Voting Rights Act now
On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson sat at a small desk in the President’s Room of the U. S. Capitol and used dozens of pens to sign one of the most important documents in U.
Opinion · 116th Congress
America — Halfway between hope and heartbreak
Leaving legal arguments aside, Monday’s 6-to-3 Supreme Court decision outlawing job discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (with Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch writing for the
Opinion · 116th Congress
Consumer laws should protect children, not companies
Section 6(b) of the1972 law was intended to ensure accurate information is released to the public regarding safety concerns about the products we buy and to provide companies a chance to respond.