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Augustine’s, no House-initiated legislation will ever make it to the Senate floor.
OPINION — There are two kinds of politicians in Washington when it’s all said and done — the kind who do what they have to do to get re-elected, and the kind who do what they believe they should do because
This is the time to re-establish the constitutional, institutional mandate and responsibility of Congress as a whole for bipartisan, fact-based oversight by both the House and the Senate.
We’ve seen this movie before in 2006 when Republicans lost independents by 18 points (39 percent to 57 percent) and with that, the House and Senate.
With a Democratic House and a Republican Senate, Tuesday’s verdict was decidedly mixed.
By the end of the whole mess, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley went to the Senate floor to defend the committee process he ran.
But Trump’s vicious ridicule of Ford’s harrowing and heartfelt Senate testimony was so hateful that it should have made Satan bow his head in disgust.
For eight decades, the prime example has been Franklin Roosevelt’s ill-fated plan following his 1936 landslide re-election to pack the Supreme Court with six new justices.
With John McCain dead and Trump critics like Jeff Flake and Bob Corker not running for re-election, Sasse may become, by default, the closest Senate version of a never-Trump Republican.
In those same hours, the House and Senate leadership were whisked away from the Hill to an “undisclosed location.”
Max Cleland, was in a re-election fight so ugly, many of us on his staff frankly didn’t know how to respond.
These two grave international crises — still unfolding as the voters went to polls — contributed to Dwight Eisenhower’s landslide re-election victory and a status-quo verdict in the congressional
Views like these raise the intriguing possibility that Rand Paul — the closest the Senate comes to an actual libertarian — may prove a pivotal figure in the Kavanaugh confirmation fight.
Now that we know President Donald Trump has settled on Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his next choice for the Supreme Court, Senate Republicans are poised to deliver on a promise they have been making to conservatives
Barring the elimination of the internet, cable TV and talk radio, or the re-establishment of broad-based parties, I see no reason to expect a return to civility or national unity.
Bill Clinton reinvented himself after both losing re-election as Arkansas governor in 1980 and after triggering a Newt Gingrich takeover of the House in 1994. Even George W.
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.
Over generations, bold action at crucial moments has re-energized the American project.