Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Another Health Care Bill, Another Health Care Cliff
Kennedy’s Senate seat.
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Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Fatal Flaw for Republicans in Graham-Cassidy
While voting for Graham-Cassidy may help the two senators survive a primary, the vote becomes another factor complicating their fall re-election campaigns in states that expanded Medicaid.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Two-Party System on a Sick Bed
> Recent decisions not to run for re-election by popular House Republicans like Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania and Dave Reichert of Washington are the latest indicators that there is no longer room
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: How Trump and the Democrats Spared McConnell and Ryan
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan want you to know they’re plenty angry about President Donald Trump’s trifecta deal with Democratic leaders on keeping the government open
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Trump Giving Ryan and McConnell the Power on DACA
After months of bashing House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and “the Republicans” on Twitter, things got so bad between Trump and McConnell last month that they went for
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Corker Silent on Trump Renomination
to unequivocally denounce white supremacists in the wake of lethal violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last week — there’s a lot of bad blood between Trump and his putative Republican allies in the Senate
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Stuck on the Back Bench? Why Not Run for President
In fact, the Ohio legislature had just voted to appoint Garfield to a Senate term — for which he would have been seated in March 1881 — when the GOP met in Chicago to pick its nominee for the presidency
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: GOP Tax Dilemma — Somebody’s Got to Pay More
“Any deduction you look at in the tax code has a constituency behind it,” John Thune said last week as we chatted about taxes in his Senate office.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: ‘Values’ Are Relative When Rooting for Your Political Team
Senate voted to proceed with debate on dismantling President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act and replacing it with, well, something, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said he and
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Lessons in Loyalty From John McCain and That Other Guy
McCain made it clear he was there for the Senate itself, and for the country.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Analysis: Health Care Insiders Are Outside Looking In
Now, those lobbies are searching for the precious few pressure points to help derail the Senate bill.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Wanted — Three Senate Republicans to End the Mean Season for Health Care
.’… No one I know in the Senate Republican Conference believes that no action is appropriate.”
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: A Don’t-Blame-Us Congress Ducks on Syria
Not only are we poised to re-enact Watergate in Washington, but we are also getting a whiff of Cold War brinksmanship in Syria.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: With Health Care Vote, House GOP Landed on Sitting Duck
It was dead before it arrived at the doorstep of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office. And, of course, that’s really the point.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Obama Effect — Pros and Cons for Republicans and Democrats
So as he gently re-entered the public and policy eye this week, it’s no surprise that he could throw both Democrats and Republicans off balance — though of course for very different reasons.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: In North Carolina, the Good and Not-So-Good News
just as bruised business and political leaders at least welcomed a return of sports, entertainment and a decent reputation, a small group of conservative Republican state House members filed a bill to re-fight
Opinion · 115th Congress
No Sophomore Slump for Marco Rubio
But the fact that a question exists at all marks a new era for Rubio in the Senate.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Trump Transforms GOP Into the Softer-On-Russia Party
The odds on a Senate select committee on Putin’s machinations drop with each passing day, despite GOP support from the intrepid John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
Opinion · 115th Congress
There’s Danger for Democrats, Too, in Obamacare Repeal
Even though they’ll need just 50 votes in the Senate to strike much of the law, they’ll need 60 votes, including eight Democrats, to put anything else in its place.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Washington Politics: A Hint of Compromise or North Carolina-Style Dysfunction?
And we will deliver,” said re-elected House Speaker Paul Ryan, as he no doubt relished uniting with President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Washington to celebrate the consolidation of