Congress

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  6/22/2020
  

  Why Can’t Republicans Elect Women?

  The Republican Party has not matched the gains made by Democrats in seating women in Congress since the "Year of the Woman" in 1992. 

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• 4/19/2020
  

  An Interview with Fergus Bordewich, Author of “Congress at War”

  by James Thornton Harris

  My work on Congress during the Compromise of 1850 showed me how much wonderful untapped and dramatic material there was to be found in the battles fought on the floor of Congress.

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• SOURCE: National Catholic Reporter
  4/6/2020
  

  Time For The Dems To Earn The Hatred Of The Wealthy And Connected

  Democrats might want to make copies of the president's signing statement and mail it to all Americans, highlighting the passages where the president insists there will be no oversight.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/2/2020
  

  From Afar, Congress Moves to Oversee Trump Coronavirus Response

  Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would move to form a special committee to scrutinize the Trump administration’s response, including how more than $2 trillion in federal relief money is being spent.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/25/2020
  

  A Troublemaker With a Gavel

  by Karen Tumulty

  Perhaps, before too long, the troublemaker with a gavel will finally get her wish—to no longer hear herself introduced as the most powerful woman in American history.

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• SOURCE: Muster
  3/17/2020
  

  Democracy: How 1860 Connects to 2020

  by Daniel W. Crofts

  In the years before the Civil War, just as today, minority rule was the norm. White Southerners dominated the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party dominated the federal government.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/9/20
  

  Who’s Really Shredding Standards on Capitol Hill?

  by Joanne Freeman

  Naming the alleged whistle-blower is much worse than tearing up a speech.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  2/7/20
  

  House to vote this week on bill to create women's history museum

  The bill is poised to pass easily with bipartisan support.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/4/20
  

  100 years ago, Congress threw out results of the census

  by Walter Reynolds Farley

  Census 2020 is far from the first census to set off bitter political fights. One hundred years ago, results from Census 1920 initiated a decadelong struggle about how to allocate a state’s seats in Congress. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/29/20
  

  The Senate has a chance to take back power Congress gave up long ago

  by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes

  Calling witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial would revive the habit of investigating the executive branch.

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• 12/22/19
  

  Impeachment Wounded the Republic

  by Christopher Binetti

  This scenario is exactly opposite to Gracchus in Rome, but the result will be the same. 

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• 12/22/19
  

  Pass the Protecting the Right to Organize Act

  by Martin Halpern

  If unions and their allies win passage of this legislation, they may begin to shift the country away from the glaring inequality that is at the core of the country’s discontent. 

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• 12/29/19
  

  Why Holocaust Education Is So Important Today

  by Claudia Moscovici

  The Never Again Education Act is an effort by a bipartisan group of US legislators in both the House and the Senate to promote Holocaust education.

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• 12/8/19
  

  The Power of the 2017 Congressional Recess

  by Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin

  Leaders got involved because the country had fallen into the hands of a vile, dangerous bully. They were not going to put up with harassment in their own communities.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
  10/31/19
  

  High School AP Government Class Helps Families of Civil Rights Murder Victims After Lobbying Congress

  by Ethan Ehrenhaft

  An AP Government Class Helps Families of Civil Rights Murder Victims

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/27/19
  

  Spies in the White House Have a History of Running Wild Without Congressional Oversight

  A former congressional staffer says withholding damning evidence from Congress and using civilians to carry out presidential or intelligence agency agendas links the Ukraine crisis to other scandals.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/7/19
  

  How Congress Passed an Assault Weapons Ban in 1994

  With Congress prepared to again clash over gun safety, in the aftermath of a murderous August, the circuitous route to passage taken by the assault weapons ban 25 years ago illustrates just how perfectly the legislative stars must align for contentious gun measures to become law. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/26/19
  

  200 years ago, the Cherokee Nation was offered a seat in Congress. It just announced its chosen delegate.

  The conversation about nominating a delegate has been ongoing in the Cherokee Nation.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/11/19
  

  Only Washington Can Solve the Nation’s Housing Crisis

  by Lizabeth Cohen

  The federal government once promised to provide homes for every American. What happened?

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• SOURCE: Yahoo News
  7/9/19
  

  McConnell cites Obama in reparations debate: 'We both are the descendants of slave owners'

  “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living is responsible for, is a good idea,” McConnell said.