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Jun 22 2019
News
Oregon GOP lawmakers who fled capitol to avoid climate bill vote face $500 daily fines
The Republican state lawmakers in Oregon who skipped town this week to avoid voting on a climate bill are reportedly facing fines if they don’t return to the state Legislature soon.
According to a local NBC station, the state senators will be fined $500 for every day they don’t show to vote on the bill beginning Friday. Supporters have reportedly raised over $6,000 to help the
The Hill
Apr 10 2020
News
Trump urges Congress to approve small-business funding, no additions
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday the funding measure to help small business should be approved by Congress with no additions, as a partisan skirmish in the U.S. Senate cut short a Republican effort to speed $250 billion in new assistance.
Republicans sought quick Senate passage of a small-business measure sought by Trump’s administration on Thursday but ran into opposition
Reuters
Aug 05 2020
News
Biden Turns Trump’s Most Callous Comment About Coronavirus Against Him In New Ad
The president’s dismissal of the COVID-19 death toll comes back to bite him in the Biden campaign video.
President Donald Trump’s insensitive “it is what it is” dismissal of the soaring U.S. coronavirus death toll is turned against him in presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s new campaign video.
The clip released by the Biden campaign on Tuesday begins with footage of Trump
HuffPost
Jan 08 2021
Analysis
The four-hour insurrection
How a Trump mob halted American democracy
Before noon, the president of the United States, their rogue hero, told thousands of his supporters that this was the last stand, the moment to overturn the result of November’s election and ensure a second term for Donald Trump.
“We’re going to have to fight much harder,” Trump told several thousand red-clad, flag-waving acolytes
Washington Post
Sep 16 2020
News
Up in Smoke? Vote to Legalize Pot Becomes Hazy Amid Stalled Stimulus, Democratic Pushback
Democrats really want to legalize marijuana at the federal level—a landmark vote that would be historic. Years ago, such a move would have been virtually unthinkable, given public attitudes toward the drug.
But there is mounting pushback to nix next week's planned vote in the House to give cannabis high praise among rank-and-file members, particularly those in swing districts. The
Newsweek
Oct 03 2020
News
Trump's Orbit Now Has More New COVID Cases Than Numerous Countries
Several members within President Donald Trump's orbit have tested positive for coronavirus since Friday, including the president himself. The diagnoses have sent shockwaves around the country along with the message that the pandemic is far from over.
With the latest being former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, 14 people in the president's orbit have reported positive diagnoses since
Newsweek
Nov 19 2018
News
Big Latino Turnout In Midterms Raises Stakes For 2020
Election after election, pundits predict that Latinos will be a powerful voting bloc. And Latino voters consistently underperform those expectations by failing to turn out at the polls in big numbers.
NPR (Online News)
Oct 30 2020
Analysis
Don’t Sweat the Polls
“I want to feel hopeful about Joe Biden’s chances this year, but I just can’t,” my neighbor confessed to me, as we stood in line outside a coffee shop. What had begun as pleasant conversation—dogs, the temperature, clouds—had been pulled, through the vortex known as Late October in an Election Year, into an airing of political anxieties. “I’m still so afraid that 2016 is going to happen again
The Atlantic
Jan 26 2019
News
‘Complete, total surrender’: Why Trump waved the white flag
The sudden erosion of support from Senate Republicans ultimately forced Trump’s hand.
Politico
Oct 06 2020
Analysis
Is the FDA Too Cautious in Its Approach for Approving COVID-19 Vaccines?
"The vaccines are coming momentarily," asserted President Donald Trump in his post-hospitalization video yesterday. The same day the White House reportedly first blocked and then scrambled to approve under pressure the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) proposed guideline that COVID-19 clinical trial vaccine recipients be followed for two months to evaluate vaccines' safety before they can
Reason