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Jan 01 2021
News
Frustrations flare as $2,000 checks blocked for fourth straight day
Frustrations flared in the Senate during a rare New Years Day session as lawmakers battled for the fourth day in a row over a proposal to increase the amount of recently approved coronavirus relief checks.
Senate Republicans blocked a House-passed bill to increase the stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 on Friday, as well as an attempt by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to set up votes on
The Hill
Mar 17 2023
News
Louisiana Democrats look to buck expectations for third time in governor’s race
Democrats in Republican-leaning Louisiana are trying to buck expectations for a third consecutive cycle in this year’s open gubernatorial race as term-limited Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) prepares to leave office.
A divided Republican field is raising Democrats’ hopes of clearing the all-party primary on Oct. 14 and making it to the November general election. But Democrats acknowledge they
The Hill
Mar 05 2023
Opinion
Once hailed as a reformer, Mikheil Saakashvili languishes in prison
More than a decade ago, Mikheil Saakashvili carried influence in Washington and Georgia, the former Soviet republic he led as president. He rose to power on the shoulders of the 2003 Rose Revolution, which swept aside a corrupt and stagnant regime. Mr. Saakashvili met with Joe Biden in Georgia when Mr. Biden was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and later when he was vice
Washington Post
Apr 07 2023
News
Louisiana Democrats condemn Tennessee lawmakers' expulsion over gun control protest
Louisiana House Democrats condemned on Thursday a vote by Republican lawmakers in Tennessee to expel two Democratic lawmakers from that state's legislature after those lawmakers called for more gun control. "The voters of District 52 in Nashville and District 86 in Memphis elected Representatives (Justin) Jones and (Justin) Pearson to serve as their voice,” Louisiana House Democratic Caucus
The Times-Picayune
Jun 20 2022
News
Tom Kean Jr. wins N.J. Republican primary to set up rematch against Democrat Tom Malinowski
New Jersey voters got their marquee congressional race Tuesday as former state Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean Jr. and Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski won their primaries Tuesday, according to projections by the Associated Press.
That sets up what promises to be the state’s hottest congressional battle in this November’s midterm general election: a rematch of 2020, when Malinowski
nj.com
Jan 22 2021
News
Republicans in disarray: Where does the GOP go from here?
When President Trump exited the White House on Wednesday, he left behind a Republican Party reeling from a series of tough election defeats. Four year ago, the GOP’s prospects looked bright. It controlled both houses of Congress as well as the presidency and was primed to establish a dominating conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
But it lost the House of Representatives in 2018
Yahoo! The 360
Nov 08 2022
Analysis
The plan to save America by killing the partisan primary
Can much of America’s current political dysfunction be traced back to one feature of our system: the partisan primary? And if so, what should be done about that?
Nevada voters will be tasked with assessing those questions when they go to the polls Tuesday, to vote on “Question 3” — a proposed overhaul of the state’s election system that would effectively kill the partisan primary (the
Vox
May 15 2023
News
Cardona confirms student loan payments will resume this year: ‘The emergency period is over’
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona confirmed this week that the Department of Education is preparing to restart student loan payments later this year.
“The emergency period is over, and we’re preparing our borrowers to restart,” Cardona said at a Senate Appropriations hearing on Thursday, as the national COVID-19 public health emergency was set to expire at midnight.
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The Hill
Apr 07 2023
News
Tennessee legislators ousted for gun protest
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Republicans on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville. A third Democrat was narrowly spared by a one-vote margin. In a historic act, the chamber voted 72-25 to oust Rep. Justin Jones, a 27-year-old community organizer
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Mar 10 2023
News
Manchin tanks Biden nominee over climate activism
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced Friday he will block a key Department of Interior (DOI) nominee from moving forward over her climate activism.
Manchin noted that his decision — which effectively kills President Biden's nomination of Laura Daniel-Davis to serve as DOI's assistant secretary for land and minerals
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