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Jun 07 2021
News
Manchin says he'll vote against For the People Act and digs in against eliminating filibuster
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Sunday defended his decision to vote against a sweeping voting rights bill and reiterated his opposition to gutting the filibuster, declaring in the strongest terms yet that he is not willing to change Senate rules to help his party push through much of President Joe Biden's agenda.
"I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already
CNN DigitalDec 17 2021
Opinion
Omicron is coming and lockdowns aren’t coming back. So what can we do?
As an ongoing wave of delta collides with the new omicron variant just as people are traveling and gathering for the holidays, all signs now point to a massive wave of Covid-19 in the coming months.
The question is what, if anything, we can do to prevent a worst-case scenario.
Just a few months ago, people in America were dying because hospitals had been overwhelmed with Covid-19
VoxJul 23 2020
News
Judge Orders Michael Cohen To Be Released From Prison, Saying His First Amendment Rights Were Violated
A federal judge ordered that President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen must be released from prison and sent back to home confinement, saying he believes the government sent him back to prison as retaliation for refusing to agree to not writing a book about Trump and, in doing so, violated his First Amendment rights.
ForbesSep 10 2021
Analysis
Taxing The Rich Is Popular, But It Makes Democratic Lawmakers Uncomfortable
Seventy-one percent of voters, including a slim majority of Republicans, favor higher taxes on people who earn more than $1 million a year from capital gains, according to a Navigator Research survey released this week.
Taxing the rich, in general, has long appealed to most voters. But Democrats are struggling to coalesce around several such tax hikes that President Joe Biden has
HuffPostMay 27 2021
News
As crises recede, Biden’s agenda faces uphill climb
The sense of urgency behind the president’s big infrastructure bill is waning, while other legislative priorities have stalled. With a thin margin in the Senate, Democrats may have to lower their ambitions.
One day, he’s Franklin Roosevelt, seizing the reins of government amid raging crises and wielding big initiatives in his first 100 days in office. The next, he’s Jimmy Carter, up
Christian Science MonitorMay 12 2021
News
Consumer Prices Jumped in April, Climbing Faster Than Expected
Consumer prices leapt higher in April, data released on Wednesday showed, a much-faster-than-expected jump that could resonate on Wall Street as investors try to determine if inflation could alter Federal Reserve policy.
The Consumer Price Index climbed 4.2 percent from a year earlier, the Labor Department said, the fastest pace since 2008. From March to April, prices increased 0.8
New York Times (News)Dec 24 2020
Fact Check
Did Members of Congress Each Make $100K While Debating $600 Stimulus Checks?
On Dec. 21 2020, the U.S. Senate passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. Its aim was to merge a COVID-19 relief bill with the annual appropriations bill that allocates funds for the federal government. For COVID-19 relief, the bill authorized a one-time payment of $600 to most Americans — an amount criticized as inadequate compared to the economic suffering it seeks to mitigate.
SnopesOct 13 2020
Fact Check
Do Biden and Harris Support Abortion ‘Up to the Moment of Birth’?
The caption of a viral Facebook post from Women Speak Out PAC claims that “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris support abortion on demand, up to the moment of birth, even at 9 months, all at taxpayer expense. Biden and Harris are pro-abortion fanatics.”
While Joe Biden does support abortion rights and federal funding for abortion, this post is misleading and missing context.
As a
The DispatchMar 31 2021
Analysis
The Bump Stock Ban Highlights the Danger of Letting Bureaucrats Invent Crimes
A federal appeals court rejects a highly implausible redefinition of machine guns.
Two years ago, peaceful, law-abiding gun owners across the country became felons overnight, thanks to the Trump administration's ban on bump stocks. But as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit recognized last week, Congress alone has the authority to define new federal crimes, while the president
ReasonApr 13 2021
News
A year into pandemic, 15% of Americans find themselves in a deepening financial hole, poll finds
While most Americans have weathered the pandemic financially, about 38 million say they are worse off now than before the crisis began in the U.S. a year ago.
Overall, 55% of Americans say their financial circumstances are about the same now as a year earlier, and 30% say their finances have improved, according to a new poll from Impact Genome and The Associated Press-NORC Center for
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