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Sep 08 2021
Headline Roundup
Yellen Urges Congress to Raise or Suspend Debt Ceiling
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to raise or suspend the debt ceiling as soon as possible on Wednesday, warning that inaction could lead to a historic default in October. “A delay that calls into question the federal government’s ability to meet all its obligations would likely cause irreparable damage to the U.S. economy and global financial markets,” Yellen
CNBC The Daily Caller New York Times (News)Jul 24 2020
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Sinking Trump seeks to squash GOP dissent
President Trump is seeking to squash lingering dissent within the GOP, lashing out at Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and former Bush administration official Tom Ridge after the two offered implicit and explicit criticism of the president.
The intraparty spats come as some cracks show in Trump's typically overwhelming support among Republicans.
Polls show Trump trailing presumptive
The HillNov 08 2019
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House GOP looks to protect Trump by raising doubts about motives of his deputies
House Republicans’ latest plan to shield President Trump from impeachment is to focus on at least three deputies — U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, and possibly acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney — who they say could have acted on their own to influence Ukraine policy.
All three occupy a special place in the Ukraine
Washington PostJan 09 2016
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GOP Slams Obama on Obamacare Veto: 'This Law Will Collapse'
Republicans slammed President Barack Obama Friday for vetoing legislation that would repeal Obamacare and strip funding for Planned Parenthood, with House Speaker Paul Ryan vowing to take "this process all the way to the end under the Constitution."
"It's no surprise that someone named Obama vetoed a bill repealing Obamacare," the Wisconsin representative said. "But we will hold a vote
Newsmax (News)Oct 28 2020
Analysis
How long it could take to count the vote this year, explained
The big question overshadowing “Who will win the presidential election?” is: “When will we actually know who won?”
The pandemic and historic levels of mail-in voting mean that we have reason to expect that certain states will be very, very slow to count their votes this year — while others will be at least relatively quicker.
Of the six key swing states that will most likely
VoxJul 26 2019
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The House Just Passed a Budget Deal That Will Add $1.7 Trillion to the National Debt
Members of Congress are well aware of the looming threat of the $22 trillion (and growing) national debt, but seem incapable of doing anything except making it worse.
Sometimes Congress goes beyond parody.
"Make no mistake," House Majority Leader Steney Hoyer (D–Md.) said Thursday afternoon during a debate over a new budget deal on the House floor, "we're going to have to make
ReasonDec 27 2015
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Ryan so far proves he can 'make the sausage,' but he'll likely be serving a much different House party in 2016
“I actually make sausage,” chirped House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan. “I can’t make that up.”
And the Wisconsin Republican isn’t talking about moving legislation in Congress.
Long before Ryan clutched the speaker’s gavel, bow hunting deer consumed his late-fall and early-winter weekends. Ryan aims to bag three or four deer a year. He then crafts jerky and sausage from the meat.
Fox News (Online News)Jun 03 2021
Headline Roundup
White House Says Biden Will Not Create Presidential Commission to Probe Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
The White House said Thursday that President Joe Biden does not have plans to create a presidential commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. White House press secretary Jen Psaki told Axios that "Congress was attacked on that day, and President Biden firmly agrees with Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi that Congress itself has a unique role and ability to carry out that investigation. Because
The Daily Caller Axios CNN (Online News)Nov 23 2019
Analysis
The Road That Brought Conservatives and Republicans to This Point
At some point in your development, probably in your younger years, you stepped into the world of politics out of curiosity and it lit something within you. While lots of your peers found it boring, you started to feel like it was a grand crusade in the best sense. You had a set of values you believed in, ideas you wanted to defend, and policies you wanted to enact — you grew to believe that in
National Review (News)Nov 01 2019
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House Votes for Impeachment Inquiry
“Democrats swept a rules package for their impeachment probe of President Donald Trump through a divided House Thursday… By 232-196, lawmakers approved the procedures they’ll follow as weeks of closed-door interviews with witnesses evolve into public committee hearings and — almost certainly — votes on whether the House should recommend Trump’s removal. All voting Republicans opposed the
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