Congress · 119th Congress
Should Jan. 6 be a national holiday?
The Senate last week passed a resolution to hang it on the Senate side for now.↵↵Winners write history and winners get to determine if they use an eraser.
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Opinion · 117th Congress
Biden’s dug a hole for himself, but he keeps digging
Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., called for a “strategic pause” on Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending package, Chuck Schumer, sounding more like the captain of the Titanic than Senate majority leader, rejected
Opinion · 116th Congress
Tidings of victimhood and ‘revenge’ for a holiday, excuse me, Christmas season
In Georgia, ostensibly to stump for the state’s two Republican senators in runoffs that could determine party control of the Senate, Trump, of course, turned the conversation to the injustice of
Opinion · 116th Congress
There is nothing civil about intimidation
After a summer of rioting that Nancy Pelosi characterized as “people will do what they do,” the speaker this week refused to rule out re-impeaching President Donald Trump to stop the nomination and
Opinion · 116th Congress
As Democrats line up to debate, the GOP is regressing
In the president’s official re-election announcement this week, he made clear that for the GOP, 2020 is 2016 on steroids.
Opinion · 116th Congress
North Carolina’s Republican Party is having an identity crisis
Hayes had given up many of his day-to-day duties and had said he would not run for re-election; he and three co-defendants have pleaded not guilty.
Opinion · 116th Congress
America is about to find out if ‘Lunch Bucket Joe’ is a man of steel
His handling of Anita Hill’s Senate appearance in 1991 could be a problem for many liberal women who have female presidential candidates to choose from.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Will the Supreme Court save the GOP from itself on abortion?
And the party can lose a net of three Senate seats (if they keep the White House) and still maintain control of the chamber in 2021.
Opinion · 116th Congress
What Justin Amash can teach Nancy Pelosi
Up for re-election in 2024 (when Trump is either retiring or fuming over his political fate at one of his golf resorts), Romney’s future is independent of the 45th president.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Trump’s Gold-Plated, Monogrammed Presidency
When William Fulbright, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations panel and an acerbic critic of LBJ’s war, held high-profile hearings in 1966 on Vietnam, the president did not try to block top
Opinion · 116th Congress
This isn’t Nancy Pelosi’s first impeachment rodeo
But in supporting impeachment to placate those voters, they may pay a high price by alienating the middle, where their re-election is likely to be won or lost. What is congressional recess?
Opinion · 116th Congress
Trump’s latest self-inflicted wound: Medicare cuts
Even after the Democratic House repudiated his ersatz emergency, Trump has refused to offer anything to Senate Republicans desperately searching for a way to vote with the president.
Opinion · 116th Congress
What did the president do and when did he do it?
When the Mueller report comes out, I will be watching orthodox Republicans like Lamar Alexander, who has announced that he will not be running for re-election to the Senate in 2020.
Opinion · 116th Congress
That might as well have been Trump’s concession speech
Trump’s Tuesday night bloviation-a-thon (which almost broke Bill Clinton’s don’t-stop-talking-until-tomorrow State of the Union record) has been described as the opening salvo of his 2020 re-election
Opinion · 116th Congress
Dr. Jekyll, Mr. State of the Union
Washington put the rest in writing and told members of the House and Senate he looked forward to cooperating with them “in the pleasing though arduous task” of working for the American people. Boom.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Stacey Abrams has already delivered her message
OPINION — Move over Beto O’Rourke, the candidate who brought Texas Democrats closer than they had been for years in his eventually unsuccessful Senate race against GOP Sen. Ted Cruz last year.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Democrats were ripe for division. Then the shutdown came along
But we feared it could potentially seal Trump’s re-election.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Very much up for grabs: this year’s profile in courage
Yet I am encouraged that Tim Scott, the lone African-American Republican in the Senate, will occasionally call out examples of racism in his party, recently in a Washington Post opinion column, or
Opinion · 115th Congress
The Train Is Leaving the Station for the Last Rational Republicans
And last week by unanimously rebuking Saudi Arabia over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and voting to cut off funding for the vicious war in Yemen, the Senate began to forge its own Middle East
Opinion · 115th Congress
The Criminal Justice Bill Shows Where the GOP Is on Race
The president said her re-election campaign had distanced itself from his administration. “Mia Love gave me no love,” Trump said, sounding vindictive and a little creepy, “and she lost.”