Category: News
Schumer Moves Innovation Bill, Even As Biden Pares Infrastructure Plan
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) this week filed an updated and enhanced version of a bipartisan innovation bill, even as President Biden released a pared-down, compromise revision of his expansive infrastructure plan.
After Her Ouster, Liz Cheney Defiant: ‘Bring It On’
Even after her GOP colleagues stripped her of her perch in House leadership, the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney remained unbowed and defiant.
‘The Person that Should Have Their Leadership Challenged Was Kevin McCarthy After January 6’
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's leadership is lacking in a Republican Party in which grievance and an eternal culture war has replaced genuine policy and responsible governance, according to an outspoken "Never Trumper" Republican congressman.
As Republicans Dump On Liz Cheney, Some See Republican Party Is Headed to Self-Destruction
Rep Liz Cheney, the congresswoman from Wyoming who's third-ranking in House Republican leadership, continues to experience blowback from most of her GOP colleagues for her vote to impeach Donald Trump.
Statehood Momentum: DC, Puerto Rico Will Be States ‘By the End of This Decade’
While President Biden and its other allies won't give up on granting Washington DC statehood, at least one political observer believes that the political momentum is there to bring in both DC and Puerto Rico as the newest US states by the end of the decade.
Black Leaders Sound Hopeful After Chauvin Verdict: ‘We Are Moving in the Right Direction To Become the America that We Were Created To Be’
A number of Black leaders sounded optimistic notes for the future of the nation following the stunning verdict which found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all charges for killing the unarmed Black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minn., last year.
Boehner: ‘Knuckleheads’ in the Republican Party Just Bring Chaos, They Have No Idea About Governing
Former House Speaker John Boehner's making the rounds of television to promote his new book, but along the way, he's not always being terribly kind to the fellow Republicans he left behind.
‘It’s Time to Bring Our Troops Home’
President Biden has announced that he is ordering the full withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, in time for the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, which began the US invasion and its longest war in that fraught Middle Eastern nation.
Biden: For Too Long ‘We Haven’t Been Making the Big, Bold Investments’ to Outpace Our Global Competitors
President Biden used a White House meeting with CEOs discussing an industry shortage of semiconductors to tout his big $2.2 trillion infrastructure plan, by saying that such investments are required to maintain US competitiveness in the global marketplace.
Bernie Sanders: We Have to Take a Broad Look at Infrastructure
As Congress begins to consider President Biden's $2.2 trillion infrastructure plan, count Sen Bernie Sanders among those pleased with the plan's wide definition of "infrastructure."
