by James Fite | Apr 19, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), one of the Democratic Party’s leading ladies for years, is presently unable to fulfill her duties on the Senate Judiciary Committee. And in her absence during these divided times, the panel finds itself locked in a 10-10 party-line...
by James Fite | Sep 30, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
The Senate voted to approve a continuing resolution (CR) Thursday afternoon. The stopgap funding keeps the government running until December 16, and passage through the upper chamber came just a day before the Friday, September 30 deadline, when the already...
by James Fite | Dec 10, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
A new type of deal brokered in the U.S. Senate could have long-reaching implications for the future of the filibuster. Thanks to dealings between upper chamber party leaders, a number of GOP lawmakers voted with Democrats to pass a resolution that would allow a simple...
by James Fite | Oct 8, 2021 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
Late Thursday evening, October 7 – after a good deal of back and forth and uncertainty as to whether enough Republicans would agree to overcome the filibuster – the Senate passed a bill to increase the debt limit by $480 billion. The actual passage of the bill was...
by Mark Angelides | Sep 2, 2021 | Articles, Biden Administration
In the wake of the evacuation disaster and news that President Biden tried to get former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to play ball in creating a politically appealing mythos, the calls for impeachment came in fast and furious. However, the cold, bracing water of...