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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Congress · 116th Congress
Crawford plays legislative whack-a-mole with China-made buses, railcars
“Because of his military background, because of his ranking membership of the rails subcommittee, because Arkansas is a big state for rail manufacturing, he just sort of hits all the different buckets
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
Congress · 116th Congress
Senate talks on crafting bipartisan Violence Against Women Act break down
Ernst said the bill had been swept up in “election year politics” that drove the negotiations off the rails.
Congress · 116th Congress
Impeachment on collision course with possible shutdown
“But the closer you get to deadlines, the more heated the political environment, and there’s always the chance that you can slip off the rails and something will go wrong.” [jwp-video n=”2″]
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.
Policy · 116th Congress
White House pushes ban on Chinese-made buses, rail cars
“The CRRC moved into Australia in 2008 and within a decade the four domestic suppliers of freight and transit rails are gone.”
Congress · 116th Congress
Mnuchin blasts Facebook’s Libra currency on eve of hearings
/p> But Facebook’s privacy scandals and poor public reputation mean that lawmakers also see an opportunity in publicly chastising the social media giant, meaning this week’s hearings could go off the rails
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.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Trump should say less on trade. The stock markets will thank him
And then, two days ago, people went through the same kind of upsetting moment when the China talks went off the rails and the markets reacted.
Congress · 116th Congress
Pelosi, Schumer head to the White House for infrastructure talks
, a widely cited source of analysis of the state of the country’s infrastructure, estimated in 2015 that the U.S. needs about $4.6 trillion by 2025 to repair and maintain the nation’s roads, bridges, 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.