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May 12 2023
News
Debt ceiling: Still no plan to avoid a default, but major shifts in posture
After a week of meetings on the debt ceiling, Congress, the White House and the country still do not have a clear path forward to avoid a cataclysmic default with just four days when both the House and Senate are scheduled to be in session before June 1, when the US could default on its obligations. On one hand, it looks like this could go to the brink. On the other, there have been pockets of
CNN (Online News)Jun 09 2023
News
Hillary Clinton responds to Trump indictment with ‘But Her Emails’ merch pitch
Hillary Clinton is reacting to former President Trump’s federal indictment by making a pitch for her “But Her Emails” merchandise.
The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee took to social media Friday — just hours after Trump announced Thursday that his legal team had been told he was indicted following an investigation into his handling of classified documents — with a plug for her
The HillDec 15 2022
Opinion
The next House speaker should learn from 2011 experience on fiscal reform
"It has been said that history repeats itself," psychoanalyst Theodor Reik (no, not Mark Twain) first observed. "This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes."
History could and should rhyme loudly when the 118th Congress takes office in January, particularly on fiscal issues. In 2011, just as in the year that begins in January, the Republicans regained control of the House (
Guest WriterJun 20 2023
News
Aird tops Morrissey, Sturtevant beats Chase in wild Virginia primaries
As she started her tour of polling places Tuesday morning, former Virginia delegate Lashrecse Aird said she hasn’t forgotten that Sen. Joe Morrissey, D-Richmond, initially brushed her primary challenge aside by acting like he didn’t know who she was. “We’re getting ready to show him,” Aird said outside Petersburg High School. When the polls closed 10 hours later, she was right. Aird handed
Virginia MercuryNov 10 2022
News
How Trump, infighting and flawed candidates limited Republican gains
Florida Sen. Rick Scott made a plea to about 35 of his colleagues during lunch at the National Republican Senatorial Committee offices in early August: Send money to the NRSC from your personal campaign accounts. The candidates were in need.
The Republican outlook had gone from glossy to grim since the July campaign finance reports. Despite $5-a-gallon gasoline and a historically
Washington PostJun 15 2023
News
'Playing with human lives': Los Angeles mayor rips GOP Texas Gov. over migrant stunt
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday night that his state had dropped off its "first" busload of migrants in Los Angeles, the latest move by a right-wing governor to ship vulnerable asylum-seekers to a distant Democratic-led jurisdiction. "It is abhorrent that an American elected official is using human beings as pawns in his cheap political games," the city's progressive mayor,
Raw StoryJun 15 2023
News
Greg Abbott Makes Los Angeles the Latest Backdrop of His Anti-migrant Stunt Show
Republican governor Greg Abbott has once again shipped a busload of migrants to a Democrat-led city from Texas, this time choosing Los Angeles in what marks another escalation of the anti-immigration stunts that Abbott and Florida governor Ron DeSantis have waged against California. Upon arriving in Los Angeles Wednesday afternoon, the more than 40 migrants were greeted by local officials and
Vanity FairJun 13 2023
News
Tennessee education associations sue state over dues deduction ban
Three Tennessee teachers' associations are suing the state over a new law that prohibits association dues from being voluntarily deducted from paychecks, the latest legal battle to emerge over controversial legislation passed by the General Assembly earlier this year. The dues provision was an unexpected inclusion in a budget bill aimed at raising the statewide teacher pay rate to a minimum of
The TennesseanJun 13 2023
News
Tennessee education associations sue state over dues deduction ban
Three Tennessee teachers' associations are suing the state over a new law that prohibits association dues from being voluntarily deducted from paychecks, the latest legal battle to emerge over controversial legislation passed by the General Assembly earlier this year. The dues provision was an unexpected inclusion in a budget bill aimed at raising the statewide teacher pay rate to a minimum of
The Commercial AppealJun 15 2023
News
Maryland officials to announce revival of Red Line transit project Thursday
Maryland’s top state and federal elected officials on Thursday afternoon will announce plans to revive the long-stalled Red Line transit project in Baltimore that was abruptly canceled eight years ago. Gov. Wes Moore will make the announcement this afternoon at the West Baltimore MARC Station, said Moore spokesman Carter Elliott. Joining Moore, Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller and other state government
Baltimore Sun