by James Fite | Nov 16, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) won his party’s nomination for speaker, and he did so handily. He had long been expected to win the behind-closed-doors vote, so his decisive victory wasn’t terribly surprising, even with recent rumblings that the party was...
by Liberty Nation Authors | Jun 22, 2022 | Articles, Gun Control
The US Senate on Tuesday passed a procedural vote to advance a bipartisan gun control package, with 14 Republicans joining Democrats and those who caucus with them. The 64 to 34 result signals that the legislation may break the 60-vote filibuster threshold. The...
by James Fite | Apr 5, 2022 | Articles, Law
The April 4 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing advanced seven nominees to the floor for confirmation, but the real news, of course, was Joe Biden’s pick to take Stephen Breyer’s place on the Supreme Court. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson cleared the committee by the seat...
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 James Fite | Dec 7, 2021 | Articles, Biden Administration, Good Reads, Opinion
President Joe Biden and the Democrats – most of them, anyway – were dreaming of a green Christmas, but will those dreams be dashed? They had hoped to pass their massive social spending package by the holiday break, but that’s looking less likely as the days go by....