Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: America Doesn’t Care How the Sausage Is Made
How will parents be able to judge each party’s policy proposals without a reasonable understanding of the outcomes they will produce?
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How will parents be able to judge each party’s policy proposals without a reasonable understanding of the outcomes they will produce?
But the AP article that Ryan shared along with his deleted Tweet is one that Democrats should read carefully.
They are hungry for someone, anyone, who will stand up to Donald Trump without getting in the mud with Trump when they’re doing it.
Both chambers should continue the House’s recent practice of allowing committees to work every morning without the interruption of floor business and votes.
For far too long, the federal government has poured money into new construction without an eye to what happens after the ribbons are cut.
Dreamers in exchange for the Trump Wall, a sharp 25 percent cut in legal immigration, 10,000 new enforcement agents and a crackdown on cities that do not aid government agents in apprehending immigrants without
While it may be hard for even well-meaning men to understand how pervasive sexual harassment has been on Capitol Hill and just how damaging it can be for the career prospects of a young staffer without
Vacancies like these should always concern those who favor good government and transparency, and they are even more important now, as recent policy developments on taxes, health care and immigration may
More precisely, it was a fight over the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which allows the government, in many cases, to search without a warrant
By this standard, Trump should be encouraged to play golf until his hands are blistered and to watch Fox News until his eyes can no longer focus on the screen.
Any memoir, any revelation, any honest assessment should wait until the president whom you served has left office.
Still, a strong argument can be made that the Democrats should try to cut deals with the White House.
And in case you haven’t noticed, older families without children at home and childless singles vote. Q: But isn’t $930 tax saving enough to win a voter’s gratitude?
Without details to sell or results to show — and in the face of withering criticism from Democrats and the media — it’s not surprising Republicans have yet to win the tax cut argument with voters
Yet without action by Congress, the maximum amount the federal government can spend on total discretionary investments will be cut by $5 billion in fiscal 2018.
And we should continue a long bipartisan tradition of funding and conducting research across the federal government. That research, by very definition, will have many failures.
President Donald Trump insists it should not be tied to the annual appropriations scramble.
“Washington has always had a flair for the dramatic, but these days, little seems to be done without last-minute theatrics.”
The documents give a rare and candid glimpse into an office without boundaries, one plagued by what staffers described as a culture of serial abuse.
That means an opportunity for lasting, incremental progress that we should welcome.