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Jan 15 2020
News
Democrats to investigate ‘profoundly alarming’ Ukraine texts
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee chairman said his panel will investigate what he says are “profoundly alarming” text messages that have raised questions about the possible surveillance of former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch before she was ousted by the Trump administration last spring.
House Democrats on Tuesday night released a trove of documents they obtained from Lev
Associated PressOct 06 2021
News
Congress is at an impasse on the debt limit. Here are 5 ways it could end.
The United States is less than two weeks away from the government's deadline to breach the debt ceiling, and leaders in the nation's capital are at a stalemate about how to avert what could be a devastating default.
The House of Representatives has passed a bill to extend the borrowing limit through December 2022, but that bill faces a logjam in the Senate ahead of an expected
NBC News DigitalJun 18 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Joe Manchin Starts To Think About Switching Parties
From the CenterThis view is from an author rated as Center.
A Senate that’s split evenly between 50 members of each party can be a recipe for either compromise or chaos. It’s inevitable that a moderate Senator who doesn’t always vote with his colleagues is going to attract an immense amount of anger and criticism from party loyalists. And tensions run especially high in the
Dan SchnurOct 21 2021
Opinion
Steve Bannon Doesn’t Want to Testify. We Already Know What He Did.
The House of Representatives voted 229-202 on Thursday to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol, raising the question of whether the Justice Department will prosecute Bannon over his action or leave Congress to spend what might be years in court trying to enforce its subpoena
Mother JonesJul 20 2021
News
Builders pull back as more homebuyers are priced out of the market
There are several signs in the market for newly built homes that point to a potential slowdown for the nation’s homebuilders.
Data released Tuesday added to the evidence that builders are pulling back.
Single family housing starts continued to rise in June, many of those for homes already sold. But building permits, an indicator of future construction, fell more than expected
CNBCOct 11 2020
Headline Roundup
Trump Returns to Campaigning; Doctor Says He is 'No Longer Contagious'
President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail by holding an event at the White House Saturday, just over a week since he tested positive for the virus. Trump spoke from a balcony to several hundred supporters, saying he was "feeling great." On Saturday evening, White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said Trump was no longer considered a transmission risk to others, but didn’t say
Wall Street Journal (News) Washington Post New York Post (News)Mar 03 2021
News
Bipartisan senators introduce bill to strip Biden of war powers
Sens. Tim Kaine and Todd Young on Wednesday introduced bipartisan legislation that would repeal decades-old authorizations for the use of military force in the Middle East, amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran in the region.
Kaine (D-Va.) and Young (R-Ind.) unveiled the measure as lawmakers have expressed frustration with President Joe Biden’s decision to launch airstrikes
PoliticoJul 03 2019
News
Trump Picks Two Fed Nominees Likely to Support Easier Policy
After a yearlong assault on the Federal Reserve and its chairman, President Donald Trump has tapped two wildly different economists to the central bank’s board who seemingly have one important thing in common.
They’re both likely to support the president’s call for lower interest rates.
One, Christopher Waller, is the more conventional choice drawn from within the Fed’s own ranks
BloombergAug 19 2017
Headline Roundup
Bannon Returns to Breitbart
Just hours after Steve Bannon's departure from the White House, it was confirmed that he would be returning to Breitbart. After this announcement, there has been much speculation of what this return means for the future of Bannon, Breitbart, and the White House.
Vanity Fair Reuters The BlazeFeb 14 2022
Perspectives Blog
When A Little Bipartisanship Goes a Short Way
From the CenterWe spend a lot of time talking about the hyper-polarization and knee-jerk partisanship that is poisoning our politics – and for good reason. Both major parties have been struggling for years to keep their most fervent ideological zealots under control, with mixed success at best. Joe Biden has spent his first year in office trying to navigate between the demands of the
Dan Schnur