“We should all be alarmed at how the budget reconciliation process is being used by both parties to stifle debate around the major issues facing our country today,” he wrote. “Legislating was never supposed to be easy. It is hard work to address the needs of both rural and urban communities in a single piece of legislation, but it is the work we were elected to […]
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“I think the one part that stayed with me is the fact that everyone who took the witness stand said they felt helpless,” Omar said. “That is a feeling that we know really well here in Minneapolis when it comes to police abuse.” Omar said witnesses recounting Floyd’s death reminded her of her own experience 20 years ago, when “I witnessed police officers unload three dozen […]
Since last week’s report, there have been calls for Cuomo’s impeachment, resignation and the removal of his pandemic-driven emergency powers. The senators stressed that committee hearings would make sure the Department of Justice “has all the tools and funding that it needs to investigate and prosecute to the extent necessary this tragedy and subsequent cover-up.” “But an investigation by the Department of Justice is rightly conducted […]
Harris appeared on WSAZ to speak about the massive relief package, saying: “To your point in West Virginia, one in seven families is describing their household as being hungry, one in six can’t pay their rent, and one in four small businesses are closing permanently or have already closed, so it’s a big issue in West Virginia and across the country.” Manchin is part of a […]
“Obviously, he is the president-elect. He has 270 Electoral College votes,” Cassidy said. “As we’re a nation of laws, and this is the Constitution, and this is the law, and this is how it breaks out, and the courts have ruled, then President Biden’s going to be our next president.” Cassidy added that “clearly, there’s still disappointment,” in Trump’s loss, but “in terms of the functional […]
Asked by Wallace about whether he feels comfortable throwing out millions of votes from fellow Americans in key swing states, Scalise responded by saying “70-plus million votes are also at stake for President Trump.” “Joe Biden has been going through a transition that even President Trump supported, while he’s also following what the court allows,” Scalise said. “There are legal challenges allowed.” Scalise compared Trump’s legal […]
“We got to deal with inequality in all things,” she said. “In health care, we see the effects of Covid-19 on Black and brown communities. In education … we know that [the] overwhelming majority of people in our prison systems, for example, are Black and brown, and a majority did not graduate high school. We’ve got to deal with injustices in education, in lending, in housing.” […]
Shalala, who served as secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration, said the virus is hurting low-income minorities in her district who were called back to work and often live in small, multigenerational homes. She said the “simplest thing” DeSantis could do is impose a statewide mask requirement and praised South Florida mayors for implementing such rules. But she said: “That’s just a […]
Lewis often sparred with Trump and didn’t attend his inauguration. “I think he is a racist,” Lewis said of the president in January 2018. “We need to continue that fight for social justice,” Bass said in her Sunday interview. “And again, the first thing we need to do is to pass the Voting Rights Act and get it signed, because we’re very concerned about the election […]