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Sep 30 2022
News
Pelosi Ripped by Fellow Democrat for Delaying Stock-Trade Bill
Democratic Representative Abigail Spanberger lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other party leaders who she accused of dragging their feet on legislation to ban stock trading by lawmakers.
Spanberger, who introduced a bill with Republican Representative Chip Roy to require that lawmakers place investment assets into a blind trust while in office, questioned Pelosi’s commitment
BloombergJan 30 2023
News
Black Memphis police spark dialogue on systemic racism in the U.S.
For the mother of Tyre Nichols, the fact that five Memphis police officers charged with beating her son are also Black has compounded her sorrow as she tries to cope with his violent death at age 29.
“It makes it even harder to swallow,” RowVaughn Wells said in an interview last week, “because they are Black and they know what we have to go through.”
The race of the five officers
Washington PostNov 04 2019
News
Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All Plan
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
Last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren released her "Medicare for All" plan; the full text can be viewed on her campaign website. Warren says that, in total, her plan would require $20.5 trillion in federal spending over the next Abridge NewsJan 18 2023
Opinion
‘You Don’t Negotiate With These Kinds of People’
Over the past eight years, the Republican Party has been transformed from a generally staid institution representing the allure of low taxes, conservative social cultural policies and laissez-faire capitalism into a party of blatant chaos and disruption.
The shift has been evident in many ways — at the presidential level, as the party nominated Donald Trump not once but twice and has
Thomas B. EdsallSep 08 2017
Opinion
OPINION: The debt ceiling is bad for America
We all know that politics makes strange bedfellows, but the events of the last couple of days leave even the most politically savvy analysts scratching their heads. This week, President Trump struck a deal with Democratic congressional leaders to temporarily raise the debt ceiling and fund the government through mid-December ostensibly to clear the legislative path for his tax reform proposals
The HillSep 18 2013
News
GOP revises plan on debt limit to avert shutdown
House GOP leaders Wednesday announced that they will move quickly to raise the government's borrowing cap by attaching a wish list of GOP priorities like blocking "Obamacare," forcing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and setting the stage for reforming the loophole-cluttered tax code
TownhallJan 20 2022
Analysis
The Senate filibuster vote dooms much of Democrats’ agenda
The Senate on Wednesday voted 48-52 against changing the chamber’s filibuster rules, dooming much of Democrats’ agenda for the near term.
Democrats were ultimately split on the rules vote, with two opposing the change and 48 in favor of it. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) were the only Democrats who voted against the rules change, which would have made an exception to
VoxJan 01 2023
News
America's 'most dangerous law' goes into effect
Illinois law enforcement is preparing new ways to best serve and protect law-abiding citizens as the state’s new sweeping criminal justice reform bill takes effect Sunday, a local sheriff said.
"We've spent a lot of time trying to prepare for what's coming," Franklin County Sheriff Kyle Bacon told Fox News. "Trying to sift through a thousand pages to determine where our role is and
Fox News DigitalDec 31 2012
News
GOP backs off Social Security income change
Republicans on Sunday conceded on their demand that any “fiscal cliff deal trim Social Security cost-of-living increases, signaling the end  for now  of their push to reform entitlements in exchange for higher tax rates. Proponents said they might try to revisit the issue next year, but senators from both parties said they were playing a losing hand when they appeared to be
Washington TimesNov 10 2022
News
Freedom Caucus threatens to derail McCarthy's speaker bid
Members of the House Freedom Caucus are threatening to derail House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become the next speaker of the House as the conservative group looks for concessions from the California Republican as he faces a narrower-than-expected majority next year.
The group, which played a key role in forcing former Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to step down, is looking to
Washington Examiner