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Read More...Most-Viewed Bills – Week of November 14, 2021
H.R.3684 – Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act H.R.5376 – Build Back Better Act H.R.1319 – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 H.R.4350 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 H.Res.57 – Impeaching Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States, for abuse of power by enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. H.R.69 – Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 H.Res.774 – Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5376) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14; and for other purposes. H.R.1996…
Read More...OMB warns of hiring freeze, funding gaps, if Congress pursues full-year continuing resolution
Several agencies would lose out on funding needed to address new and emerging priorities if budget stalemates persist for the rest of the year, the Biden administration warned. OMB on Friday detailed a long list of administration priorities it believes would be under-funded or misaligned in the event Congress can’t pass dedicated, full-year funding for the rest of the fiscal year. The current continuing resolution, which provided agencies with temporary stop-gap funding needed to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September, expires Dec. 3. The timeline to secure…
Read More...Inside the Red-State Plot to Take Down a Top Trump Ally
Updated at 12:30 p.m. ET on November 13, 2021. For many Utahns, the Trump rally was the breaking point. A few days before the 2020 election, Senator Mike Lee paced across a red, white, and blue stage in Goodyear, Arizona, microphone in hand, rhapsodizing about the president’s many virtues while he looked on. Lee’s talking points were mostly familiar. But then he arrived at a novel line of flattery, pitched to his coreligionists: He compared Trump to a figure from the Book of Mormon. “To my Mormon friends, my Latter-day…
Read More...How Voters Feel About Josh Hawley’s ‘Attack on Men’
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri surprised even some allies when he recently devoted his entire speech at a high-profile national conference of conservatives to an extended analysis of why so many men appear stuck in a cycle of “idleness and pornography and video games,” as he put it. Hawley’s warnings against what he called liberals’ “attack on men” could open a new front in the culture wars that Republicans have used to consolidate their support among the voters most alienated by social and demographic change. Polls consistently show that a…
Read More...The Desperate Scramble to Stop an Insider Election Threat
The people who fear the most for the future of American democracy weren’t watching the election returns in Virginia and New Jersey earlier this month for clues about next year’s midterms. These voting-rights advocates didn’t pay much attention to who won mayoral or school-board races. Instead, they’ve spent the past two weeks trying to discern how many Donald Trump loyalists captured control of elections in a pivotal 2024 swing state: Pennsylvania. Voters across the Keystone State decided who will run their polling places in the next two elections, but you…
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