Policy · 116th Congress
Biden will support Amtrak; can he convince GOP?
How his years riding the rails put him on a first-name basis with Amtrak staff. How he announced his first presidential bid at the train station in Wilmington in 1987.
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Campaigns · 116th Congress
New Jersey’s machine takes a rare loss on primary day
It’s worth considering as Trump rails against vote-by-mail as a scheme to steal his reelection that both parties lose some of the control on the levers of power they’ve gotten used to when voting
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Who is Thomas Massie, the House member Trump wants thrown out of the GOP?
“He also rails against the swamp, rails against lobbyists, and then sends emails to lobbyists to attend his fundraisers, which arrive in our in-boxes quarterly.”
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Beto O’Rourke’s White House run tests limits of early strategy
O’Rourke, who rails against the influence of money in politics, also had some help in 2012 from a deep-pocketed super PAC, and a lucky break that gave him more time to campaign.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
The ‘squad’ takes center stage in GOP attacks in 2019 state elections
The Virginia House GOP’s #HoldTheHouse campaign launch video features an image of Ocasio-Cortez as a Fox News host rails against the financial costs of her Green New Deal proposal.
Congress · 116th Congress
Infrastructure talks run off the road by latest Trump, Dem fracas
Both parties knew that the meeting had the potential to go off the rails.
White House · 116th Congress
White House braces for Mueller report as obstruction questions linger
Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the attorney general last week of “going off the rails.”
Congress · 116th Congress
IG Report: Some members of Congress sexually harassed night-shift custodians
Sexual harassment prevention training went off the rails. And the Architect of the Capitol has no unified system for effectively tracking complaints and resolutions of sexual harassment cases.
Congress · 116th Congress
Pelosi says Barr is ‘off the rails,’ raises concerns about DHS upheaval
. — Attorney General William Barr is “going off the rails,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Wednesday after the head of the Justice Department told Senate appropriators that U.S. intelligence agencies
Congress · 116th Congress
Kicking off party retreat, Democratic leaders pledge to take bipartisan approach to infrastructure
Clyburn said the discussion will be broad — not just about roads, bridges, ports and rails — but water and sewers and other forms of infrastructure.
Congress · 116th Congress
Schiff under siege: Republicans cite Intelligence Committee’s ‘vendetta’ against Trump
“But the last two years he’s gone off the rails.
Opinion · 116th Congress
The perils of investigating a complete buffoon
If Pelosi can keep her caucus between those guard rails, she’ll have managed the almost impossible and kept the integrity of her branch of government intact in the process.