by Mark Angelides | Jan 20, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Democrat efforts to avoid the filibuster for matters related to voting rights came to an abrupt, although unsurprising, end late Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) attempted to make a rule change on January 19 that would require only a simple...
by Dave Patterson | Nov 5, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
These days seldom are Republicans and Democrats on the same page. But the failure of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to bring the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2022 to the Senate floor for a vote has members of both parties...
by James Fite | Oct 22, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, The Constitution
Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) revealed during an Axios interview that the Democrats are trying for a third time to get Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough to allow them to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants in the multi-trillion-dollar reconciliation bill – a...
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 James Fite | Oct 1, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Politics
Despite initial indications that Democrats wouldn’t budge on the debt ceiling and that Republicans had no intention of playing ball either way, Congress did finally work together and agree to fund the government – for now, at least – just hours before the deadline...