It must be shocking for a president elected on his promise to rack up so many wins that we’d tire of winning to approach the 100-day mark with no real legislative achievement. White House aides desperate to load up...
The money chase is on, and Democrats across the presidential field
are bragging about their low-dollar average contribution size, while
downplaying their contacts with big donors in Hollywood and on Wall
Street.
Elizabeth Warren took that tactic a step...
Until she resigned her post effective Aug. 1, British-born Russia scholar Fiona Hill held a key position in the White House overseeing and coordinating the administration’s relations with the former Soviet Union, Russia and Europe. She coined the phrase...
For generations of journalists, covering the statehouse has been a prestigious beat. It typically came with a desk in the building, and ample access to lawmakers. It was not an assignment for a novice. You worked your way up...
Democrat
Elijah Cummings chairs the House Oversight Committee, a tough job made
tougher by White House stonewalling and by Republicans on the committee
trying to torpedo an investigation into prescription drug pricing.
Ranking member Jim Jordan of Ohio and...
Who is Caitlin Halligan?
A 46-year-old lawyer and litigator, she is at the center of a Senate showdown set for Wednesday over President Obama’s judicial nominations. This is Halligan’s second time before the Senate—her initial appointment to the D.C. Circuit...
President Obama’s promise of “meaningful action” in the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., has opened the door to a long-overdue national discussion about gun safety, the term advocates use instead of gun control because it is...
It was billed as an “Ideas” conference, a chance to take stock of where Democrats stand post-Obama and four months into the Republican takeover of Washington. Speakers talked broadly and idealistically about how to take down the anti-worker economy...
President Joe Biden is routinely attacked, mocked, and ridiculed for his supposed physical and cognitive decline, while other comparable political figures like Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Mitch McConnell—and even President Ronald Reagan—got much gentler treatment from their opponents and...
Gun safety advocates are getting a wakeup call this week, with two measures that just days ago seemed almost certain to pass are now looking iffy in the Senate. Big majorities of Americans across partisan lines, including gun owners,...