(Photo Credit: Tulin, CC 2.0) Last week, the President of the United States stood in the White House Rose Garden and said, “I'm the most transparent President probably in the history of this country.” While every day seems to bring a new, staggeringly dishonest rhetorical strategy from the Trump Administration, this statement qualified as … [Read more...]
Democratic House Majority Boasts Productive First 100 Days
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) (Photo Credit: Center for American Progress Action Fund, CC 2.0) New Presidents are obsessed with “The First 100 Days,” a term originally coined during the Franklin Roosevelt administration to refer to the incredibly productive legislative start to Roosevelt's presidency. Political observers have long … [Read more...]
Nancy Pelosi Accused Barr Of Committing A Crime By Lying To Congress
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Attorney General William Barr of committing a crime by lying to Congress concerning his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation on Thursday. "He lied to Congress — if anybody else did that it would be considered a crime. Nobody is above the law — not the president of the United States … [Read more...]
House Democrats Pass Universal Background Checks Legislation
Fulfilling a promise made to survivors of gun violence in 2018, the Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives voted at the end of February to pass The Bipartisan Background Checks Act, the first significant gun control legislation to pass either Congressional chamber in decades. The bill in its current form will not pass the … [Read more...]
Trump Appointed Attorney General Says Redacted Mueller Report Will Be Released To Congress
According to a report by Business Insider, on Friday, Attorney General William Barr said in a letter to senior members of Congress that he plans to release a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The letter, addressed to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham and House … [Read more...]
Whistleblowers Allege Key Trump Administration Officials Pushed To Build Nuclear Reactors in Saudi Arabia
President Donald J. Trump, joined by Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman, shows informational boards showing how much business the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia generates in the United States economy, at their meeting in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Public Domain) The Trump … [Read more...]
Robert Mueller Sends Report on Trump Investigation to Department of Justice
Special counsel Robert Mueller has finished his investigation into Donald J. Trump, the Trump campaign and any connection to Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election. The report has been delivered to the Justice Department's Attorney General, William Barr, who was appointed to the position by Trump earlier this year. In … [Read more...]
Trump Tweets ‘There Should Be No Mueller Report’ After House Passes Unanimous Resolution
In a series of tweets Friday, President Trump claimed that Robert Mueller's findings on Russian interference shouldn't become public. The tweet marked the first time Trump called for the special counsel’s findings to be quashed from the public. According to Business Insider, the legality of Mueller’s probe has been upheld in multiple courts. On … [Read more...]
Congress Eyes Passing of Social Security Expansion
Social Security, which is the term used for the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, was first introduced to this country in 1935 as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Second New Deal. Today, Social Security is relied on every month by roughly 61 million Americans, but according to the Congressional Budget Office, … [Read more...]
Witnesses Named For Net Neutrality Hearing
The House Communications Subcommittee has named the witnesses for its March 12 hearing, “Legislating to Safeguard the Free and Open Internet.” The hearing will be on a bill that the Democrats introduced last week, the Save the Internet Act, which would nullify the FCC's deregulatory Restoring Internet Freedom Order and restore the Open Internet … [Read more...]
