by James Fite | Jun 3, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
President Joe Biden spoke to the nation Friday night in his first ever primetime Oval Office address to tout the latest debt limit deal. The Fiscal Responsibility Act, which Biden plans to sign later today, cleared the Senate 63-36 Thursday, June 1, after passing...
by Andrew Moran | Jun 2, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
For the next 19 months, the curtains will be closed for the debt ceiling political theater season. The federal government will add about $4 trillion to the national debt heading into 2025. Then the drama will unfold again, and whoever comes out on top in 2024 will be...
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 Mark Angelides | Aug 5, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Ending days of heady speculation, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema has signified that she is willing to back the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. “We have agreed to remove the carried interest tax provision, protect advanced manufacturing, and boost our clean...
by James Fite | May 12, 2022 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
Once again, Senate Democrats tried to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act – a bill they say would “codify Roe.” Once again, they failed. Just like the last time, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) must have known he didn’t have the votes – but, just like...