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Opinion: Ensuring We All Count
Without an accurate census, we would not have equal representation in Congress or in state legislatures. Medicaid and Medicare funding would be distributed inequitably.
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Without an accurate census, we would not have equal representation in Congress or in state legislatures. Medicaid and Medicare funding would be distributed inequitably.
Blake Farenthold should be proof alone.
As the FCC rolls back the Obama-era regulations on the internet, it should also take the opportunity to affirmatively recognize this.
Reporting abuse when it happens is important, but preventing it from happening in the first place should be the goal, and for that, the voices of young staffers will never be enough.
black men were lynched because of the hysterical fear that they were lusting after white women, when in truth it was white men with all the power who were disrespecting, assaulting and raping black women without
MIKE JOHNSON One of the worst kept secrets in Washington is how frequently lobbyists violate our foreign registration laws by accepting millions of dollars from foreign principals without disclosing
They insist that a single home-state senator be able, at any time and for any reason, to stop a nomination dead in its tracks without any Judiciary Committee consideration at all.
. … I don’t see how we’re ever going to get out of it without fighting a major war with the Chinese and all of them down there in those rice paddies and jungles.”
When Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin began to make the case for large tax cuts without offsets at the Aspen Ideas Festival last month, he didn’t say the tax plan would pay for itself — he said
And we haven’t even factored in the retiring and increasingly independent Bob Corker, who keeps insisting that the tax cuts should not increase the deficit.
In Las Vegas this week, President Donald Trump is praising the first responders, doctors and law enforcement, as he should.
Trump’s war Since then, the now-president, who was excused from Vietnam-era military service but later told radio host Howard Stern that surviving the promiscuity of the era without contracting
Ivey should get credit for being a much-needed and probably lonely example of professionalism in a political climate of deliberate division and back-door self-dealing.
the budget resolution at the end of the month, they have been trying to ram through the Senate a ramshackle bill (named after Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy) that would upend the health care system without
Whatever the number is for our short-attention-span president (maybe a mile by golf cart and 10 miles by limousine), the Democrats should agree to build a border wall of precisely that length.
Duck and cover But with Trump providing air cover — GOP leaders and rank-and-file lawmakers could vote for the bill without fear of Trump stirring up the tea party base against them — McConnell
But popular consensus should not blind us to the reality that we have made decisions in the name of security that earlier generations of Americans might find hard to grasp.
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 weeks without
friend, whose family has been in the U.S. more than 125 years, paid an extra fee for a passport ID card for fear she would be stopped and forced to prove it on trips through Arizona and Texas — which should
Speaker John Boehner adjourned the House for the 2012 Christmas recess without voting on the Senate-passed Sandy funding.