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Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Monday, June 13, 2022

LIVE: Public Hearings of the January 6th House Select Committee Continues

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by Nomad The second House Committee hearing on the January riots at the Capitol will deal primarily with evidence that Mr. Trump knowing...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Coronavirus Comes to Washington

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by Nomad Embed from Getty Images US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at th...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

History Has Shown Us the Dangers of a Weak Congress and Where It Leads

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by Nomad W hen the Democratic-led House of Representatives was attempting to investigate the allegations against President Trump in ...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

The Joseph Maguire Testimony: A Trump Official Under the Spotlight

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by Nomad T his morning, Joseph Maguire will be testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, regarding his decision not to relea...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Live: Trump's Lawyer Testifies Before Congress

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by Nomad D onald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, will testify before the House Oversight Committee. As Vox notes : While que...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Congress Demands Legal Justification for Trump's Syrian Missile Attack

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by Nomad Dear Mr. President Y ou might not have seen the joint press release from Congressman Adam Schiff and Senator Tim Kaine ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Dashed Hopes for Increase in Federal Minimum Wage May Be Just the Start of Hard Times

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by Nomad O n 29 November, some 40 people were arrested at a protest outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Detroit. They had gathered ...
Friday, February 5, 2016

Why GOP Complaints about Pharma Price-Gouging of Vets is a Hypocritical Smokescreen

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by Nomad One Republican complaints against a drugmaker's price-gouging may be applaudable. As long as you have only half of the fact...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Unitary Executive Theory: How the GOP in Congress is Destroying Cheney's Life Work

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  by Nomad Former vice president Cheney must be watching in dismay as the Republicans in Congress are tearing apart a doctrine that he...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

How Boehner's Phony Search for Common Ground has Led the GOP Absolutely Nowhere

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by Nomad Since Obama took office, Speaker of the House, John Boehner has been searching for "common ground." Through cr...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Boehner, Netanyahu and George Washington's Farewell Warning

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by Nomad Without consulting the White House or the State Department, House Speaker Boehner has invited Israeli PM Netanyahu to address a ...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

The Importance of Impeachment: How the Tea Party is Abusing Constitutional Procedure

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by Nomad Since the first presidential impeachment in 1868,  the procedure has proved to be a terribly imperfect tool. However, even when...
Friday, November 9, 2012

To the Fiscal Brink: Will the GOP and the 1% now destroy the US economy?

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by Nomad B rinkmanship is defined by Wikipedia as ”the practice of pushing dangerous events to the verge of disaster in order to achie...
Monday, May 28, 2012

The Angry Right Wing Voter: Have We Gone Too Far? 1/2

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by Nomad J ust look around. It’s easy to see that America is seething. From the Tea Party to the Occupy movement, voters are infuri...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Obama’s Impeachment: Mr. Jones and the War Powers Act 2/2

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Obama’s Impeachment: Mr. Jones and the War Powers Act 2/2 by Nomad In the previous post in this series , we examined in detail the res...