Opinion · 114th Congress
Democrats Should Pick Their Senate Confirmation Fights Wisely
Without offering a shred of evidence, Trump laughably claimed, “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”
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Without offering a shred of evidence, Trump laughably claimed, “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested on social media that burning the American flag should be a criminal offense, reigniting a First Amendment fight that’s already played out in Congress and
Without many opportunities to recruit challengers, open seats became more important. Indeed, the two female recruits who won this year were in seats without an incumbent.
p> Atop Trump’s “drain the swamp” campaign platform was the promise to push restrictions on time served in the House or Senate, although he’s not specified how short the maximum congressional tenure should
Daniel Inouye, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and an earmarker without peer, admitted “the handwriting is clearly on the wall.”
Trump also espoused language hinting that vaccines cause autism, writing on Twitter that doctors should give smaller doses of vaccines even though the medical community has long debunked the link
“His selection as Treasury secretary should send shivers down the spine of every American who got hit hard by the financial crisis,” Warren said in a statement, “and is the latest sign that Donald
Ryan wrote that the 2016 election will be remembered as a major turning point for the country and that Democrats “must not let this opportunity for change pass without a fight.”
He appeared to take a shot at Clinton without mentioning her name when he said that it’s not possible to be a candidate of corporate America and then turn around and fashion oneself as a candidate
was new, throughout the country there were a lot of people picked up on traffic violations in states that had laws that said unauthorized immigrants can’t have driver’s licenses and had made driving without
That process should be streamlined to require only one form of identification—like a state-issued, REAL-ID compliant driver’s license.
The first thing you should do is create a powerful meme that drives 100,000 tweets, propels broad news coverage and, in the end, forces hundreds of congressional offices to respond.
McConnell, who will remain Senate majority leader for a second Congress, told reporters that Trump “has a significant opportunity to bring our nation together” and, to help him make the most of it, “we should
But while the first part should be straightforward to accomplish — given the power of the majority to push budgetary bills to enactment under the filibuster-proof procedure known as reconciliation — there
Clinton called Trump to concede, officially ending her campaign without addressing the supporters still waiting under the glass ceiling of New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
At her campaign launch on Roosevelt Island in New York in June 2015, Clinton recalled and praised Franklin Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” without actually defining them.
The United States is going to choose its first woman president, or else its first president without any experience as a public servant.
Election Day is still looming, but a group of Democrats has already laid plans to start the next legislative year with a proposal that would allow students to graduate college without debt.
(Most of those, it should be noted, have been confirmations of relatively obscure nominees.) More surprising, given that he does not have the others’ reputation as a centrist, is that Richard M.
But it is enough — even without WikiLeaks publishing her campaign chairman’s emails — to make her feel that her paranoia is justified.