
Tag: senate

California Democrats have….a very, very deep bench. If and when Harris becomes VP, Gavin Newsom is going to have a tough choice to make. I hope he picks a very good candidate. There are plenty t
Oh c’mon: [email protected] on @MeetThePress shows regret for Senate Dems going nuclear for most noms in 2013: “I don’t think we should’ve made that change when we look back at it.” —
This is the grave of George Norris. Born in 1861 in Sandusky County, Ohio into a very poor family, Norris worked hard, graduated from from Baldwin University, and then got a law degree from Valparaiso
Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth recently had a baby. That has led to what is evidently a serious issue for the Senate–will babies be allowed on the Senate floor. And you may not be surprised th

Above: No, Not that Doug Jones I can’t as say I am usually in the habit of wholeheartedly endorsing James Carville’s strategy for the Democratic Party, but he is absolutely correct when he
The conservative dream of repealing the Seventeenth Amendment will not go away. The idea that the people could have the direct election of senators seems utterly uncontroversial to 99.9 percent of Ame

More of this please: Senate Democrats deployed a dramatic 11th hour maneuver to deny committee votes of two of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks Tuesday, arguing that those nominees had lied to
This story about the racial makeup of top Democratic staffers in the Senate is more than a little dismaying: “They are all so phony,” the staffer told me. “Every time I hear any of the Democrati
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