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“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
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
“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.”
Ernst said the bill had been swept up in “election year politics” that drove the negotiations off the rails.
“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″]
OPINION — Every now and then, politics simply goes off the rails, plowing through the collective American psyche like a runaway train.
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.
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.
/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
“This technology is evolving extremely rapidly without any real guard rails,” Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings warned in his opening statement at Tuesday’s hearing, the panel’s second in less than
Both parties knew that the meeting had the potential to go off the rails.
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.
, 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
Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the attorney general last week of “going off the rails.”
. — 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
Clyburn said the discussion will be broad — not just about roads, bridges, ports and rails — but water and sewers and other forms of infrastructure.
“But the last two years he’s gone off the rails.
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.
As a record-breaking number of travelers hit the road, the rails and the skies for Thanksgiving, it is probably with no small amount of dread.
Medicare-for-all style of health care, a vote on an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, and a $1 trillion infrastructure package to spur new jobs and improve the country’s roads, airports and rails