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May 28 2021
News
GOP hands Democrats first filibuster, blocking bill to create Jan. 6 riot commission
Senate Republicans on Friday thwarted an effort to create an independent bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, blocking legislation they believed would ultimately be used as a political weapon against them by Democrats.
Most Republicans refused to back the measure, depriving the Democrats of the 60-vote threshold needed to begin debate on the bill.
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Mar 15 2022
News
The Memo: Zelensky virtual address raises pressure on Biden
A moment of enormous political drama is assured on Wednesday, when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will give a virtual address to Congress.
The speech was announced Monday by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
But Zelensky’s speech could come with complications for President Biden, given that the Ukrainian president is
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May 14 2014
News
Small Signs of a Conservative Thaw on Minimum Wage
Mitt Romney got a lot of attention—and intraparty grief—when he tossed his support behind boosting the federal minimum wage.
His remarks cut against the Republican Party’s current orthodoxy while casting light on a quiet push in some conservative circles either to support a higher wage floor or at least to float alternative ideas.
Congressional Republicans have made no mystery of
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May 11 2023
Opinion
When Words Stop Meaning Anything
It seems like the most racially diverse ideological concept out there is “white supremacy.” Talk about equal opportunity! Anybody can be a white supremacist these days – it doesn’t depend on his/her/xir color, ethnicity, being a Romney, or anything except what is useful to the left at any given moment. And it would be hilarious – it actually is kind of hilarious – if it wasn’t just the latest
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Feb 23 2023
Analysis
Chicago mayoral race spotlights cities’ post-pandemic struggles
At campaign events across Chicago’s South and West sides, Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s supporters all drive home the same point: Don’t judge her on the past four years. Think, instead, about what she could do in the next four.
“You can’t change nothing in four years,” says local Alderman Emma Mitts to a cheering crowd in West Garfield Park, an area with the city’s highest homicide
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Nov 19 2012
News
Republicans at a crossroads
Republican governors are torn between essentially staying the course in the wake of Mitt Romneys loss and a more proactive strategy aimed at radically shaking up their party in an effort to reach out to young and minority voters. Some governors believe that Romneys loss two weeks ago to President Barack Obama was just that  a loss by a single candidate who ran a defensive campaign
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Sep 27 2012
News
Obama above 50% in some battleground polls
New polls in three swing states indicate President Barack Obama exceeding 50% support among likely voters and holding leads of nine to 12 points over Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Fueling those numbers, the four polls suggest that Romney has lost his edge on the economy, an issue on which the challenger has based his campaign. The new surveys come one day after another batch of battleground
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Aug 30 2012
News
Ryan's Speech Revives The Spirit Of Jack Kemp, War Over Reaganomics
The second night of the Republican convention was an orchestrated buildup for Mitt Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan.
Ryan emerged at the evening's end to deliver the payoff speech and introduce himself to a national audience. He did a rousing job of it, delivering the session's most memorable material with stark intensity.
Outlining his many differences with President Obama on
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Sep 25 2012
News
Latest 2012 Polls Show Biggest Barack Obama Lead Yet
WASHINGTON -- Monday's new polls produced no signs that President Barack Obama's recent polling "bounce" is fading. If anything, the latest surveys indicate that his lead over Republican nominee Mitt Romney may be expanding.
A sign of the depth of Obama's current advantage comes from the fact that he led at least nominally on 19 of 20 new polls HuffPost Pollster logged into its database
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Sep 13 2012
News
Upon review, Obama’s welfare reform does undermine the work requirement
The Washington Post Fact Check columnist Glenn Kessler previously awarded “four Pinocchios to the Mitt Romney campaign back in August for its ad claiming that President Obama had gutted welfare reform. Today the Post columnist revisits the subject ¦ and discovers that, yes, maybe Obama did seriously weaken welfare reform after all. But, hey, thats okay, because Kessler still stands by his
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