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 · 118th Congress
Meet 2023’s politics, even more dramatic than 2022’s
Many of McCarthy’s detractors are Trump loyalists, which should not be glossed over on this second anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, and they want to push harder to enact his “Make America
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
When will Congress call domestic terrorism by its name?
terrorism” and “white supremacy” for the dangers they are, despite the warnings from FBI Director Christopher Wray’s March 2021 testimony before the same committee about the connection between the Jan. 6
Opinion · 117th Congress
Where have you gone, Richard Nixon?
When modern-day Visigoths sacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, I recalled a story that former Virginia Republican Sen. John Warner told me about Richard Nixon’s concession in 1960.
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
Kamala Harris is right: Virginia result will resonate in 2022, 2024 and beyond
Yet Youngkin won over this group by 6 points. For those who said the economy/jobs was their No. 1 issue, Youngkin outperformed McAuliffe by 11 points.
Opinion · 117th Congress
The world has moved on from debt ceiling gamesmanship
In a Monday editorial, The Wall Street Journal pointed out that if Republicans go along with the “stolen election canard … they’ll give Democrats an opening to tie them to the Jan. 6 riot and Mr.
Opinion · 117th Congress
For GOP, ‘back the blue’ doesn’t matter when there’s an election to be won
Aquilino Gonell compared it with his Army service, “different” because the Jan. 6 attackers were “our own citizens.”
Opinion · 117th Congress
Statues come down, while barriers to truth are erected
There is no more absurd example than in Tennessee, where parents from “Moms for Liberty” don’t want children to learn about what 6-year-old Ruby Bridges endured when she integrated her New Orleans
Opinion · 117th Congress
When an insurrection is seen as just another day in America
It’s a question I ask after hearing too many Republicans dismiss the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a violent pro-Trump mob trying to halt the counting of American citizens’ votes as a “normal tourist
Opinion · 117th Congress
When eminently qualified Black women get smeared (or every day that ends in ‘y’)
This, as members of his GOP are resisting calls to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and downplaying injuries suffered by officers protecting those lawmakers’ hides.
Opinion · 117th Congress
When ‘America First’ is a ticket to last place
Capitol on Jan. 6. Also making an appearance was former Rep.
Opinion · 116th Congress
The health care price transparency revolution begins next month
Such inflated bills cause more than 1 in six 6 Americans to have medical debt in collections, according to the Urban Institute. In some states, such as Texas, this ratio increases to around 1 in 4.
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
The virus and the fabulist in chief in the White House
The 30-year-old Freeman is a 6-foot-5-inch professional athlete — and the virus was powerful enough to make him fear for his life. Just the flu?
Opinion · 116th Congress
A mercurial Trump foils Charlotte’s best-laid RNC plans, probably
more than $150 million it was estimated the 2012 Democratic convention that nominated President Barack Obama for a second term brought in, while the city council approved the move, albeit by a close 6-
Opinion · 116th Congress
Don’t go yet, John Lewis. We need you.
He stands tall, even at 5 feet 6 inches, and can command a room with just a whisper of wisdom on fairness or justice or the requirement to act for what we know is right.
Opinion · 116th Congress
With both parties awash with cash, maybe campaign reform isn’t so quixotic
Money matters Even in private, Republicans are probably recoiling from a key provision in HR 1 allowing congressional candidates, after hitting a $50,000 threshold, to get $6 in federal matching funds
Opinion · 116th Congress
After decades of taxing the rich, the ‘Big Blues’ face the music
Bureau of Economic Analysis, the second-quarter growth rate showed Texas with an amazing 6 percent growth in GDP and Florida with 4.5 percent growth, topping the national average of 4.2 percent.