Even as he heads out the door, Derek Kilmer is still trying to fix Congress
But I liken it to a conversation I had with the House chaplain when things were really off the rails.
Search Roll Call
Search the Roll Call archive by keyword, date, Congress, section, or tags.
32 results for "rails"
Biden visits key city in swing state as Trump rails against him at courthouse
President Joe Biden arrives at the Wilmington Convention Center in North Carolina to speak about clean water projects on Thursday.
Trouble comes to the Mississippi from prolonged drought
Shippers don’t seem to be shifting goods from barges to trucks or rails, Zea said, because those modes have their own problems.
Of neighbors, fear and a fractured — and armed — America
Am I really being paranoid when I could envision my harmless interaction with the couple next door going off the rails?
Campaigns · 117th Congress
GOP outsider offers Beltway donors 30-minute sitdowns
Kent, a far-right Republican who has the backing of former President Donald Trump and regularly rails against the Beltway establishment, is working to set up back-to-back meetings all day at the
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
‘Mayor Pete’ looks inside a political marriage
“We are excited with an exclamation point,” the avowed policy wonk said, eager to discuss roads, rails and pipelines, oh my!
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.”
Opinion · 116th Congress
While Trump tweets, Pelosi prays and Schiff parodies
OPINION — Every now and then, politics simply goes off the rails, plowing through the collective American psyche like a runaway train.
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.
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
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.
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.
Congress · 116th Congress
Government shutdown pushing Metro off the rails to the tune of $400K every weekday
Government shutdown pushing Metro off the rails to the tune of $400K every weekday -
Politics · 115th Congress
Are Minnesota’s Trump Voters Looking for a Check on Him?
He rails against the 2010 health care law, federal regulations and especially the “extremist energy policies” that he claims are hurting local farmers.
Politics · 115th Congress
White House Denies John Kelly Called Trump an ‘Idiot’
He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown,” Woodward alleges Kelly said to a small group of staffers. “I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.”
Politics · 115th Congress
Pentagon Will Miss John McCain, Its Friend and Foe
For every off-the-rails program he criticized, there were many more — such as the Future Combat Systems in its heyday, before it was killed — that he effectively signed the checks for even after experts
Politics · 115th Congress
Campus Conundrum: For Professors, Trump Requires ‘Constant Adaptation’
. … The biggest challenge is teaching about Trump and not having things go completely off the rails.”