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Feb 26 2015
News
Homeland Security deal: Will Boehner follow McConnell's lead? (+video)
The Senate voted Wednesday to clear the path to fund DHS, after Republicans agreed to withdraw immigration restrictions from the bill. But it will be tougher to get it through the House, where member districts are more homogeneous.
Christian Science MonitorFeb 01 2021
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Marjorie Taylor Greene penned conspiracy theory that a laser beam from space started deadly 2018 California wildfire
In November 2018, California was hit with the worst wildfire in the state’s history. At the time, future Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote a bizarre Facebook post that echoed QAnon conspiracy theorists and falsely claimed that the real and hidden culprit behind the disaster was a laser from space triggered by some nefarious group of people.
Greene’s post, which hasn’t previously
Media MattersNov 06 2019
Opinion
A Big Night for Democrats
There’s a theme here.
“He’s tried to rip health care away from our families, and he’s cutting public education,” Andy Beshear, Kentucky’s Democratic candidate for governor, said about his Republican opponent Gov. Matt Bevin in a TV ad.
It’s a strategy we’ve seen before from Democrats — namely, in the 2018 midterms: Portray Republican incumbents as extremists who are hurting
David LeonhardtApr 25 2016
News
Bernie Sanders and Allies Aim to Shape Democrats’ Agenda After Primaries
Even as his chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination slip away, Senator Bernie Sanders and his allies are trying to use his popularity to expand his political influence, setting up an ideological struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party in the post-Obama era.
New York Times (News)Apr 12 2021
News
Democrats Used To Run From Big Government Label; They're Now Embracing It
After years of avoiding words like redistribution and labels like socialist, the core of the Democratic Party is embracing big government.
The coronavirus pandemic, a changing party makeup and a softening approach to debt and deficit have combined to give Democrats the space to embrace expensive policies and federal government expansion that would have been unheard of just a few years
NPR (Online News)Mar 04 2020
News
Trump shifts his attention to surging Biden, lays off Sanders
President Donald Trump’s political operation is shifting its focus to apparent Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden — and ramping up its efforts to convince Bernie Sanders’ supporters he's being robbed of the nomination.
With Biden suddenly vaulting to the front of the Democratic pack with his array of Super Tuesday wins, Republicans are intensifying their attacks on the 77-year-old former
PoliticoSep 26 2013
News
CNN Hammers 'Deluded' Ted Cruz; 'Kid Playing With Matches'
On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, CNN lambasted Sen. Ted Cruz, who led a 21-hour Senate floor speech against Obamacare.
Aug 04 2020
Top Argument
Should Net Neutrality Be Restored? – Top 3 Pros and Cons
The net neutrality rules adopted in 2015 regulated the internet as a common carrier, the same category as telephone service, under Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. [5] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules prevented internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking, slowing, prioritizing, or charging consumers extra money to access certain websites. For example, under
ProCon.orgApr 30 2020
News
Green card bill would bring more foreign doctors, nurses to US
Corrected 6:10 p.m. | A bipartisan group of senators introduced new legislation Thursday to grant 40,000 unused green card slots to foreign health care workers needed to help U.S. medical professionals fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., a longtime stalwart of immigration-related legislation, unveiled the bill with his colleagues, Sens. David Perdue, R-Ga.,
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