Congress · 119th Congress
Why a deal isn’t coming together on health care
↵↵In truth, the country will survive no matter what happens to tax credits that affect only 6 percent of the population.
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Opinion · 119th Congress
There’s no sugarcoating inflation
After the election, another CBS national survey (Nov. 13-14) showed that the country overwhelmingly believed that Republicans succeeded in their handling of the shutdown over the Democrats by a 55-6 margin
Opinion · 118th Congress
On your mark. Get set. Yawn.
Unlike Hogan and Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence is a staunch conservative who served for years as an apologist for Trump until the attack on the Capitol of Jan. 6, 2021.
Opinion · 118th Congress
Is Joe Biden out of touch, or is he just cynical?
The speech only reaffirmed the growing suspicion that Joe Biden lives in his own reality, a bubble where losing the House is a win and so are 6 percent inflation, rising gas prices, falling home prices
Opinion · 117th Congress
Republicans have a very strange idea of self-interest
As some might recall, there was a bit of a contretemps on Jan. 6, 2021, over Vice President Mike Pence’s purported power to reject duly cast electoral votes.
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?
Opinion · 117th Congress
Impeach Biden or investigate Trump? Voters have a choice to make
oversimplify a bit, the choice on the ballot in November — especially for the House — comes down to whether voters want to impeach Joe Biden or complete the investigation into Trump’s complicity in the Jan. 6
Opinion · 117th Congress
The fight over faith in politics: Which faith? Whose values?
system has growing anti-American sentiments,” and Moms for Liberty, which has led the charge against what it labels critical race theory but in practice seems to be about banning books on LGBTQ families, 6-
Opinion · 117th Congress
When it’s staring you in the face, it just might be the truth
actually making demonstrably false statements, out loud, as in “believe me, the 2020 election was stolen,” even as a parade of Republican witnesses are testifying at the House hearings into the Jan. 6
Opinion · 117th Congress
Don’t let the Electoral Count Act rewrite go down for the count
As the Jan. 6 committee has conclusively demonstrated, Donald Trump orchestrated a failed insurrection to delay or block the counting of the electoral votes that formally elected Joe Biden.
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
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
As Ohio became reliably red, the Republican Party was changing
Brown beat state Treasurer Josh Mandel by 6 points six years earlier, and he clobbered then-incumbent Republican senator Mike DeWine by more than a dozen points in 2006, a terrible year nationally
Opinion · 117th Congress
Grievance is no substitute for ideas
But even more important, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to unilaterally veto some Republican members from serving on the House January 6 select committee sets a terrible precedent, compounded by the participation
Opinion · 117th Congress
Midterm voters have a way of reminding presidents what to focus on
This was also the redistricting election, and Republicans gained 6 governorships and more than 700 state legislative seats, giving the GOP a massive advantage in terms of redistricting.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Joe Biden and the dangers of inbred optimism
Bush’s ill-fated “Mission Accomplished” sentiments about Iraq, Biden said on July 6, “The virus is on the run, and America is coming back.”
Opinion · 117th Congress
Wanted this holiday season: More wise men and women on the Hill
Donald Trump will not go away, except to dodge requests for records and information from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol undertaken in an attempt to overthrow
Opinion · 117th Congress
Dysfunction in America is no longer just knocking on the door
Democracy at stake While many citizens breathed a sigh of relief at the pitiful showing at last weekend’s rally in D.C. to support the jailed Jan. 6 insurrectionists, they would be ignoring the danger
Opinion · 117th Congress
Why extending the child tax credit is the right thing to do
historic expansion of the CTC in the American Rescue Plan was created to give millions of children a lifeline out of poverty, providing eligible families up to $300 per month for each child under the age of 6
Opinion · 117th Congress
SNAP recipients deserve access to healthy foods
More than 6 in 10 SNAP recipients say cost is a barrier to accessing healthy foods.