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[jwp-video n=”1″] “Where would I be today if, when I got elected to Congress back in 1992, I had refused to work with J. Strom Thurmond, an avowed segregationist?” he asked.
The truth is that without political conflict or celebrity bribes, the media generally isn’t interested in most education issues.
House passed its first gun safety measure in years, knowing it would die in the Senate without a vote, multiple states took up gun safety legislation after mass shootings devastated their local communities
Kirsten Gillibrand is running for president: Here are some congressional basics [jwp-video n=”1″] “I don’t think any of them had Biology 101,” she said.
When I covered the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump often went to remote farm communities where Democrats, and even other Republican candidates, never bothered.
Debating the merits of the tax cut plan is one thing; deliberately misrepresenting the substance of their opponents’ proposals, especially without an objective media to keep all sides honest, is quite
OPINION — One hundred days ago, I stood with my fellow House Democrats and swore the oath of office.
Making scant secret of his own loyalties on the matter, Mnuchin said, “The general public when they elected President Trump made the decision to elect him without his tax returns being released.”
“Yes, I am talking about stuff I don’t want to talk about in this chamber,” she said. “But let me tell you something.
“Of all of the people I know, Joe Biden is one of the most thoughtful and respectful of others that I’ve ever known, ever met,” she said.
OPINION — “I think electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats,” said Rep. David Lewis, a Republican member of the North Carolina general assembly’s redistricting committee.
Nobody thinks a president should be allowed to run the government alone or without the other two branches of government checking his work.
It was then that I saw two vans pull up in front of the Capitol.
Weren’t Democrats equally worried, I wondered, that they would suffer the same fate in 2019?
“If there is going to be peace and legislation … there cannot be war and investigation,” Trump said with a did-you-see-what-I-did-there smile on his face. “It just doesn’t work that way.”
I arrived on the Hill in the fall of 2015.
“When you have no faith in the system, you have no reason to participate in the system,” she said.
I would respectfully add that Perry’s incentive factor, missing in government, is also what drives innovation.
A country without a monarch craves a little pomp now and again, no matter the partisan sniping that precedes and follows it.
Without modern communications and with travel into and out of the capital difficult, the Founding Fathers correctly decided that the president should communicate regularly with the representatives of the