Congress

Man Charged in Racist Threats Against Cory Booker and Rashida Tlaib

POLITICS, The New York Times
5 hours ago

The man, John J. Kless, of Florida, made phone calls laced with slurs to the lawmakers, and to another member of Congress in California, on April 16, according to court records. Via the New York Times...

Mueller Report Does Nothing to Narrow a Vast Partisan Divide

POLITICS, The New York Times
5 hours ago

As Democrats issued a subpoena demanding an unredacted copy of the report and condemned the president’s conduct, most Republican lawmakers remained silent on the findings. Via the New York Times...

Marc Veasey, are you my Uber?

POLITICS, Roll Call
7 hours ago

If you assume that all members of Congress get from Point A to Point B by way of large black SUVs hauled by well-dressed drivers in flat caps, pump the brakes....

Florida man arrested for death threats to Reps. Tlaib, Swalwell and Sen. Booker

POLITICS, Roll Call
10 hours ago

A Florida man was arrested Friday after police said he threatened to kill Reps. Eric Swalwell and Rashida Tlaib, as well as Sen. Cory Booker. John Joseph Kless, 49, was charged in...

To impeach or not to impeach? That is now the question.

POLITICS, The Washington Post
11 hours ago

It's a close call.--- Opinion from the Washington Post's Max Boot...

8 times the Mueller report shows Trump, White House spread false or misleading claims

POLITICS, PolitiFact
11 hours ago

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report provides a behind-the-scenes reconstruction of key events in the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency. The redacted version of the report, released April 18 by Attorney General Bill Bar, verifies and supports media reports about events that Trump...

What Ocasio-Cortez gets about coal that Republicans don’t

POLITICS, The Washington Post
12 hours ago

An argument between a New York Democrat and a Kentucky Republican shows who's in touch with reality.--- Opinion from the Washington Post's the Plum Line...

A Misleading Claim About Lawmakers’ Effectiveness

FactCheck.org, POLITICS
12 hours ago

A popular meme takes aim at prominent lawmakers by referencing the number of bills they've had passed. But it uses an erroneous number -- and omits context. The post A Misleading Claim About Lawmakers’ Effectiveness appeared first on FactCheck.org. ...

Strategies: ‘Medicare for All’ Is Hammering Health Care Stocks. For Now.

POLITICS, The New York Times
12 hours ago

The popularity of proposals for a government-run, single-payer system among Democratic presidential candidates has hurt health care stocks, despite their strong earnings. Via the New York Times...

Trump feared ‘one of these independent counsels.’ He got something else

POLITICS, Roll Call
13 hours ago

Jeff Sessions, then the attorney general, ended a phone call and returned to the Oval Office. It wasn’t long before President Donald Trump was in an angry rage. The AG, since...

Trump feared ‘one of these independent counsels.�� He got something else

POLITICS, Roll Call
13 hours ago

Jeff Sessions, then the attorney general, ended a phone call and returned to the Oval Office. It wasn’t long before President Donald Trump was in an angry rage. Sessions, since unceremoniously...

Politics or Principle: Congress Must Decide

POLITICS, The Bulwark
13 hours ago

What next? Now that both the American people and Congress have the Mueller report, what should be done? Or more acutely, now that Congress has this damning profile of a president who tried to do whatever...