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House Democrats
Biden Resistance Appears to Be Waning in Congress A sizable number of Democratic lawmakers have expressed concerns about Biden’s ability to beat Trump. But will they do anything?
ukraine aid
Mar. 22, 2024
Under Threat From Marjorie Taylor Greene, GOP Speaker Faces Fateful Choice Mike Johnson, still relatively new to the job, must pick between abondoning Ukraine or relying on Democrats to save his gavel.
early and often
Dec. 31, 2022
Now You Can Read Trump’s Tax Returns Here are some of the new revelations in the thousands of pages of documents released Friday by the House Ways and Means Committee.
Speaker of the Establishment Hakeem Jeffries is poised to become House Democrats’ next leader, but that’s not necessarily a sign of progress.
foreign interests
May 1, 2022
Pelosi Leads House Delegation to Ukraine As War Slowly Grinds On One analysis has suggested that Russia’s newest main offensive has stalled.
house democrats
Jan. 4, 2022
Pelosi’s Successor Will Face Bigger Problems Than ‘Democrats in Disarray’ Factional conflicts won’t be as big of a headache for the next Speaker if the midterms shift the balance of power in Washington.
House Passes $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Delays Social-Spending Bill The seemingly eternal Infrastructure Week is finally almost over, but House Democrats delayed action on the Build Back Better social-spending bill.
Biden Backs Progressives Amid Capitol Hill Impasse In a meeting with the House Democratic caucus, Biden insisted that passing the infrastructure bill must be linked to the reconciliation bill.
Will Progressives Really Sink Joe Biden’s Agenda? Congressional Democrats’ high-stakes internal standoff is about to come to a head.
Why Pelosi and Moderate Democrats Are in a Standoff Over Biden’s Agenda Pelosi will try to pick off enough moderate rebels to get a budget resolution passed, but she may have to cut deals and shift her timetable.
infrastructure
June 16, 2021
Democrats Are Locked In a Staring Contest Over Infrastructure The question is whether liberals or moderates will blink first.
Democrats’ Odds of Keeping the House Are Slimming Fast With redistricting reform stalled in Congress, and Democratic turnout weak in special elections, the GOP is cruising to House control.
Could the Atlanta Spa Shootings Break Congress’s Gun-Control Impasse? The Georgia killings add fresh urgency to two gun bills that just passed in the House, but the GOP Senate filibuster still stands in the way.
conservatism
Mar. 10, 2021
GOP Decides Equal Representation Is an ‘Assault on Democracy’ In making the case against Democratic election reforms, conservatives are arguing that “states’ rights” are more important than equal citizenship.
House Votes To Override Trump Veto for the First Time The president vetoed the annual defense authorization bill, partially to protect Confederate-named installations. The key vote will be in the Senate.
2020 elections
Nov. 30, 2020
Democrats Didn’t Have As Bad an Election As You Might Think The conventional wisdom is that Biden won but his party “lost” the battle for the House and the Senate. That’s not really true.
2020 elections
Nov. 4, 2020
Republicans Make Shocking Gains in the House Democrats were expected to win several seats, but will instead lose a handful. Nancy Pelosi now faces a potential revolt.
coronavirus stimulus
Sept. 30, 2020
Last-Gasp Stimulus Talks Proceed With Time Running Out A compromise bill brought the previously successful negotiating team of Steven Mnuchin and Nancy Pelosi to the table.
coronavirus stimulus
Sept. 24, 2020
Pelosi to Test How Badly Trump Wants His Signature on More Stimulus Checks The ballgame may now depend on whether Trump wants his signature on a second round of $1,200 stimulus checks badly enough to accept Pelosi’s deal.
police reform
June 25, 2020
Senate Democrats Stall Republican Police-Reform Bill to Force Negotiations Bipartisan negotiations will have to occur unless both parties are satisfied with their positions on this subject going into November.
police reform
June 17, 2020
Competing Police-Reform Bills Quickly Emerge in Congress The biggest potential deal-breaker is the Democrats’ call for stripping police officers of “qualified immunity” against lawsuits.
george floyd protests
June 11, 2020
Republicans May ‘Defund the Police’ With Budget Cuts Forced by the Coronavirus Republicans blocking aid to state and local governments are hurting their friends in blue.
Republicans Are Trying to Force the House to Vote in Person The “reopen America” message trumps generations of anti-Washington rhetoric.
coronavirus stimulus
May 14, 2020
Dems Nix Anti-Recession Policy After Learning It Would Help Too Many People Pelosi cut automatic stabilizers from her party’s messaging bill because a CBO score made the policy look expensive (because it helps so many).
coronavirus stimulus
May 13, 2020
Senate Republicans Want to Protect Corporations in Any New Stimulus Deal While calling for a pause in stimulus legislation, Republicans do hear cries for help from corporate leaders, which may make them cut a deal.
coronavirus
Mar. 20, 2020
Lobbyists Swarm as Congress Prepares Massive Aid Bill When the dinner bell rings, all sorts of hungry industries are making a case that they need help.
impeachment
Jan. 19, 2020
House Prosecutors, Trump Lawyers File Dueling Impeachment Briefs Trump is either the “framers’ worst nightmare” or a completely innocent victim, depending on which memo you read.
impeachment
Dec. 18, 2019
Assessing Nancy Pelosi’s Impeachment Wins and Losses The final verdict on this skillful Speaker’s strategy won’t come until after the election, but she’s already achieved some goals and failed at others.
impeachment
Dec. 16, 2019
Schumer and McConnell Play Chess Over Impeachment Trial Rules Both parties want witnesses the other side opposes. Despite the posturing, a short trial with no testimony from John Bolton or the Bidens is likely.
What We Can Learn From the First Presidential Impeachment Like Trump, Andrew Johnson defied Congress and the Constitution in multiple ways that were hard to capture in articles of impeachment.
house democrats
Sept. 19, 2019
Nancy Pelosi’s Drug Plan Pits Trump’s Base Against GOP Orthodoxy Price controls on prescription drugs are deeply popular with the GOP’s aging base — and deeply antithetical to GOP lawmakers’ ideology.
house democrats
Aug. 8, 2019
AOC Sets Limits on Intra-Party Warfare AOC’s former chief-of-staff called a broad swath of Democratic members no better than bigots. She’s making it clear that’s over the line.
impeachment
July 28, 2019
Almost Half of House Democrats Now Support Impeachment The Mueller hearings seemed to have moved the needle within the Democratic caucus, but not anywhere else.
inexperience
July 23, 2019
President Trump Disdains Inexperience When It’s Not His or His Administration’s Trump’s latest tweets deride AOC and Ilhan Omar for their ‘inexperience.’ He also wanted Ivanka, who is ‘good with numbers,’ to run the World Bank.
house democrats
July 18, 2019
Moderate Democrats Say AOC Is Distracting From Their Nonexistent Message Instead of complaining that “the squad” is a distraction, moderates should spotlight all the unpopular policies that Trump doesn’t want to defend.
immigrant detention
July 2, 2019
AOC’s Detention-Camp Etiquette Amid squalid conditions, conservative media was most concerned that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might have yelled at a detention-center guard.
The Democrats Aren’t a Left-Wing Party — They Just Play One on TV Progressives call the shots on debate stages. But in Congress, moderates still have the wheel.
vision 2020
June 11, 2019
Why the House Probably Won’t Flip in 2020 The House bears watching because Democrats are holding a lot of districts Trump carried in 2016, but so far signs are good for Pelosi’s team.
mueller time
June 10, 2019
House Democrats Strike Deal With DOJ for Mueller Report Details In return, the House will not vote on holding Barr in contempt. It’s a truce, not a treaty, in the war between Democrats and the Trump administration.
Does Trump Want to Be Impeached? Is the president one step ahead of his opponents?
Judge Approves Subpoena of Trump’s Records With Deutsche Bank, Capital One The Trump family argued that House Democrats had no legitimate purpose for seeking the president’s financial records. A federal judge disagreed.
trump tax returns
May 17, 2019
Mnuchin Refuses to Comply With Trump Tax Return Subpoena From Congress The Treasury secretary shows his contempt for Congress, but he apparently won’t be held in contempt of Congress.
health care
Mar. 26, 2019
Democrats Respond to Trump Attack on Obamacare With Their Own Plan to Protect It Pelosi and House Democrats are trying to redraw the health-care battle lines to where they were in the midterms, to their benefit.
bipartisanship
Mar. 25, 2019
House Republicans Accuse Dems of Sabotaging Bipartisan Bills Pelosi’s caucus is allegedly denying vulnerable GOP moderates the opportunity to support bipartisan bills. Let’s hope that’s true.
the democrats
Mar. 22, 2019
House Democratic Establishment Declares War on Democracy The DCCC just announced that it will blacklist any campaign vendor that works on a primary challenge to a Democratic incumbent.
Pelosi, AOC Warn Moderate Democrats to Stop Voting With the GOP The spat over gun-vote defections shows Pelosi may have to choose between imposing party discipline on moderates, or moving fewer “messaging” bills.
presidential harassment
Feb. 8, 2019
GOP Warns That Releasing Trump’s Taxes Could Lead to Further Transparency Republicans say exposing Trump’s conflicts of interest is a slippery slope that would lead to exposing all politicians’ conflicts of interest.
Republican Solidarity Will Protect Trump From Impeachment History shows that impeachment efforts tend to tighten the bonds between president and party. With Trump’s party controlling the Senate, that’s big.
voting rights
Jan. 4, 2019
House Democrats Aim to Make Voting Rights a National Priority Their bill isn’t an immediate fix, but treating voting as a national issue rather than a state-level problem could pay dividends down the road.
house democrats
Jan. 2, 2019
Democrats Are Fighting About Whether Deficits Matter. That’s Good. For decades, the Democratic Party was united in its reverence for balanced budgets. Now, that (regressive) consensus is dead.
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