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It's Time To Make the U.S. House of Representatives More Representative May. 08, 2024
Way back in 1929, the number of House members was set at 435 by the Permanent Apportionment Act. Lit... Read More
Mourning Joe: Losing Lieberman, We Lose a Principled Independent Apr. 02, 2024
In the summer of 1997, the Republican-controlled Senate Governmental Affairs Committee was investiga... Read More
Cherry Tree Therapy for the House GOP? Mar. 27, 2024
Washington's pink cherry blossoms, a spring sight for sore eyes, are about to be whacked. The Park S... Read More
The Anguished Courage of Chuck Schumer Mar. 22, 2024
Nothing in politics is more difficult than breaking with longtime allies, friends and supporters ove... Read More
Are These Republicans Mocking Social Conservatives? Mar. 19, 2024
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace was in Washington telling a story about how her "fiance" wanted more ... Read More
TikTok Delenda Est Mar. 15, 2024
TikTok is an app for sharing short videos that keep people entertained. It is how more and more Gen ... Read More
McConnell's Judicial Gamesmanship Clears Path for Trump Second Term Mar. 07, 2024
Mitch McConnell has announced he will step down from his leadership of Senate Republicans at the end... Read More
McConnell, Playing the Long Game, Endorses Trump Mar. 06, 2024
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced last week that he will step down... Read More
Mitch McConnell Does Not Care Mar. 01, 2024
Unlike a lot of conservatives gleefully cheering on Mitch McConnell's announcement that he will step... Read More
Biden's Nonsensical Immigration Bill Feb. 15, 2024
A masterpiece of duplicity is President Joe Biden. You would assume that after decades in the Senate... Read More
Farce Turns to Tragedy in the House Feb. 14, 2024
WASHINGTON — Once upon a time, politics was a great spectator sport or theater, with character... Read More
Senate Rejects Deal Threatening Protections for Asylum Seekers Feb. 12, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
The Senate voted against a bill that would have been the first major overhaul of asylum and immigrat... Read More
This Gridlock Is a Feature, Not a Bug Feb. 09, 2024
There are many things many people want Congress to do. I would like a law that allows private citize... Read More
Time To Extend 20th Century Ban on Foreign-Controlled Broadcasters to 21st Century TikTok Jan. 03, 2024
U.S. laws prohibiting foreign control of radio and TV stations are outmoded. It's easy to see why t... Read More
Sodomy in the Halls of Congress Dec. 21, 2023
Next time you tune in to a high-profile Senate hearing — perhaps to view a Supreme Court nomin... Read More
Sen. Tuberville's Military Blockade Is Dangerous. End It Now. Nov. 08, 2023
One of the things that makes the United States Senate what some call "the world's greatest deliberat... Read More
Can a New Speaker Reinstate an Old Norm? Oct. 27, 2023
After a little more than three weeks, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. He's Mike Jo... Read More
TV News Warns About the New 'Extremist' Speaker Oct. 27, 2023
The good news for Republicans is they finally elected a new speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. The ... Read More
A Divided -- and Rudderless -- U.S. House Oct. 20, 2023
Only days ago, when U.S. House Republicans ousted Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the... Read More
What Schumer Did Not Say in His Beijing Press Briefing Oct. 18, 2023
It was a rare moment of bipartisan consensus in Washington, D.C. On Dec. 14, 2021, the Uyghur Forced... Read More
