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Feb 13 2013
Opinion
Obama urges a move away from narrow focus on politics of austerity
Just about every argument in Washington since the 2010 midterm elections, which returned control of the House to Republicans, has centered on reducing the federal deficit. On Tuesday night, President Obama leaned into his second term by declaring that a single-minded focus on deficit reduction would jeopardize the nations future. And he sounded an urgent call to rebuild.
Washington Post
Oct 01 2019
News
Bernie Sanders' campaign announces it raised $25 million in third quarter
Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced Tuesday that it has raised $25.3 million in the third quarter of 2019, the most of any 2020 Democratic presidential candidate in a quarter to date. According to the campaign, September was its single best month of fundraising in the 2020 election cycle thus far.
The cash raised in the third quarter comes from 1.4 million donations
CBS News (Online)
Nov 20 2014
News
Chuck Schumer rise tested by liberals
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer has long been viewed as the heir apparent to Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, with such strong support among moderates that a group of them privately urged him to mount a coup for party leader after the midterm election meltdown. Schumer didn’t take on Reid — he’s too loyal — but he is being forced to face a new power center inside the caucus, populists such as
Politico
Sep 06 2014
News
Obama Delays Immigration Action, Yielding to Democratic Concerns
President Obama has delayed action to reshape the nation’s immigration system without congressional approval until after the November elections, bowing to the concerns of Senate Democrats on the ballots, White House officials said on Saturday.
The decision is a striking reversal of Mr. Obama’s vow to take action on immigration soon after summer’s end. The president made that promise on
New York Times (News)
Mar 14 2019
News
In overwhelmingly bipartisan vote, House calls for Mueller report to be made public
The House voted overwhelmingly and in bipartisan fashion to urge the Justice Department to publicly release the entirety of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 election, once completed.
The move is an attempt to “send a clear signal both to the American people and the Department of Justice” that lawmakers expect to see the full account of
Washington Post
May 14 2019
News
Barr Appoints Prosecutor To Investigate Start Of Russia Probe: Reports
Trump had been demanding a new probe to investigate the people who investigated him.
Attorney General William Barr has ordered a federal prosecutor to investigate the inception of the Russia probe, according to multiple media accounts.
John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, has been appointed to oversee the inquiry, The New York Times first reported. The effort will focus
HuffPost
May 14 2019
News
GOP angst grows amid Trump trade war
Republicans are growing more nervous about next year’s race for the Senate as President Trump ratchets up a trade war with China that increasingly threatens to cause pain to U.S. farmers.
To be sure, the 2020 elections remain more than a year off, the president is popular in farm country and voters in rural states largely have stuck with Trump through thick and thin as the economy has
The Hill
Nov 04 2019
Opinion
The Last Trusted Prosecutor in Washington
John Durham is the legendary lawman digging into how the intelligence probe of Donald Trump started.
John Durham may be the most consequential and least known figure in Washington right now.
In May, U.S. attorney general William Barr selected Durham, a longtime prosecutor with a résumé so sterling it nearly glows, to investigate the origins of the special counsel’s probe into
National Review (News)
May 14 2020
Headline Roundup
Amid Insider Trading Probe, Burr to Step Down from Intelligence Committee
Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) is set to step down as the Senate Intelligence Committee chairperson, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced Thursday morning. This comes after Burr's Washington D.C. office was served a search warrant by the FBI Wednesday in relation to investigations of COVID-19 coronavirus-related insider trading allegations brought against Burr and several other
ProPublica
Axios
Fox News Digital 
Mar 12 2020
News
Should Bernie Sanders Drop Out of the Democratic Primary Race?
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
On Tuesday, 6 more states voted in Democratic primary elections: Idaho, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Dakota, and Washington.Like Super Tuesday last week, the results favored Joe Biden. Biden won 4 Abridge News