Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Back to the Future With Party ID
Then, in 2008, they returned to their previous high of 40 percent, last seen in 1996 when Bill Clinton won re-election and in 1986 when Democrats retook the Senate.
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Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: There Are No Losers When We Invest in Early Child Care
Over generations, bold action at crucial moments has re-energized the American project.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Negotiating Advice From Capitol Hill to Emmanuel Macron
But hours after that bipartisan meeting with House and Senate leaders, Trump met at the White House with the leadership of the National Rifle Association, which directly opposed both ideas.
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Opinion: Trump Era Corruption — Where’s the Outrage?
To jump-start his 1996 re-election campaign with an early advertising blitz, Clinton straddled the ethical boundaries by offering access to the White House in exchange for six-digit checks.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Serve Your Country
Jeff Flake, after he also said he’ll leave at the end of this year instead of run for re-election.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Putin’s Job Is Easy When Americans Do It for Him
Now, presumably, the newly re-elected leader can turn his attention to meddling in elections in other countries.
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Opinion: Why the Pennsylvania Special Election Is Not So Special
With midterm primaries already underway, the chances of major bills coming before the House or Senate before November grows smaller by the day.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Democrats’ Own Spanish Inquisition Could Burn Party
Widening divide At the same time, as the Warren-Sanders progressive wing flexes its collective muscle in Democratic primaries around the country, in Washington, 12 sitting Senate Democrats, many on
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Quatorze Quotient — The Importance of 14 Years in Big-Time Politics
Winking, Ted Cruz and the Party of Homer Simpson: Congressional Hits and Misses [jwp-video n=”1″] Most of them are running for re-election to the Senate this year, so overt presidential moves
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Opinion: Congress Likely to Ignore Parkland Teens’ Case for Action on Gun Violence
In 1999, the Senate passed background checks for purchases at gun shows, the House refused to act. That was all the families of murdered children then got from Congress.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Time’s Up for DiFi? Not If Democrats Are Smart
Dianne Feinstein, California’s senior senator, as she walked off the convention stage where she made her case for re-election in 2018.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Flimsy Excuses That Congressional Republicans Whisper to Themselves
“I’m in a tough re-election fight. The last thing I need is to split the GOP base.” “What if Trump starts attacking me on Twitter?” “Now just isn’t the time.
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Opinion: It’s Not the Senate That Is Selling Out the Dreamers
The Senate minority leader seemingly put the re-election interests of Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota and Indiana’s Joe Donnelly over the future of the 690,000 Dreamers registered under the Deferred Action
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Opinion: Civil Liberties and Odd-Duck Congressional Coalitions
The Senate will be debating reauthorization of Section 702 this week, with only a last-gasp filibuster threat by Republican Rand Paul and Democrat Ron Wyden standing in the way of passage.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Women Who Could Take Back the House for Democrats
That unprecedented number tracks with what I’ve seen covering special elections for the House and Senate in 2017.
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Opinion: 2018 Could Be Oddly Productive
Members of Congress would focus on policy for 18 months and then shift their concern to re-election. Now, our democracy exists in a constant election cycle.
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Opinion: Sexual Harassment From John Tower to Donald Trump — and Beyond
But his former Senate colleagues remembered him as arrogant and pugnacious.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Rand Paul and Our Own Worst Enemies
Emails from my inbox this week from fundraising groups: “RINO Commits to Run for Re-election,” “Patricia, They’re Lying,” “A Truly Truly Disgusting Ad,” “BUSTED” and “SHOCKING.”
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Opinion: The Watergate Tweets of @RealTrickyDick
June 19, 1972: The Washington Post revealed that James McCord, one of the burglars arrested at the Watergate, was also providing security services to Nixon’s Committee for the Re-Election of the
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Conscience of Two Conservatives
Free from the party-line burden of 2018 re-election campaigns, Corker and Flake became the Capitol Hill embodiment of a Kris Kristofferson lyric: “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose