Tag: Senate
Georgia runoffs: How you can help flip the Senate
The stakes couldn’t be higher. Let’s bring this home, flip the Senate, and usher in the transformative change this nation requires.
Senate passes Veteran’s Health Act; a package of bills addressing healthcare...
"By identifying and eliminating barriers for veterans to access public lands, AVRO will ensure that veterans can heal on the landscapes they served to protect."
Senators call for investigation into Border Patrol tracking phones without warrant
"...we urge you to investigate CBP’s warrantless use of commercial databases containing Americans’ information, including but not limited to Venntel’s location database.”
With COVID-19 rife among VP staffers, Democrats says Pence presiding over...
"Nothing about your presence in the Senate tomorrow can be considered essential."
A democratic fantasy of creating two new states that will create...
Democrats will simply have to stop being the party of Wall Street and the arms industry and start passing legislation that actually benefits the people.
Outside Schumer’s home, activists demand Dems block Trump SCOTUS appointment
"Democracy has its eyes on you, Chuck."
6 crucial races that will flip the Senate
Every school board member, state representative, and congressperson you elect can be pushed to enact policies that benefit the people, not just corporate donors.
Bernie welcomes Sen. Schumer’s support to cut defense budget by 10...
"If there was ever a time to fundamentally change our national priorities, now is that time."
Sanders calls on ‘do-nothing’ Senate to approve $2,000 monthly checks, cancel...
“This I know: nothing will happen unless the American people stand up, fight back, and demand, in overwhelming numbers, that the Senate act.”
House passes massive infrastructure bill, Senate Majority Leader calls it ‘nonsense’
The $1.5 trillion package includes investing in clean energy, public lands, and transit systems and focused less on building new roads.
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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.
The Age of Arrogant Amateurism – as ‘know-it-all’ opportunists seize power to control, not...
To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.