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Tag: filibuster
Lying lips: If politicians say it, it must not be true
How do you know when a politician is lying? Answer: when his lips are moving. It’s an old joke, but it fits the Biden administration. The president went to Atlanta […]
Keep the filibuster
President Biden went to Georgia Tuesday to try to drum up enthusiasm for federal “voting rights” legislation. The dark symbolism cannot be avoided — the president making his case for […]
Chuck Schumer’s hypocrisy over the filibuster
Hypocrisy and lies from politicians are so rampant in Washington that hardly anyone pays them much attention anymore. Perhaps that is why our cynicism about so many things political deepens […]
Manchin’s poll numbers get a bump
Sen. Joe Manchin may be an outlier among most of his Democratic colleagues in Washington, but he knows what plays back home. A new survey by Republican pollster Mark Blankenship […]
Capito talks with WV press about voting rights bill, earmarks, drinking water, filibuster
MORGANTOWN — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito met with members of the West Virginia press Thursday to talk about the federal elections bill, inflation, clean drinking water and other topics. The […]
The great Democratic panic
by Byron York President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer have based the future of the entire Democratic agenda on a trick. And now […]
Remind me why we need the filibuster?
I’ve been writing about Congress since the late 1980s, watching as filibusters in the Senate evolved from rare and usually doomed efforts by fringe factions into what they are today: […]
Biden disappoints on filibuster reform
So far, President Joe Biden has been a disappointment. Six months into his presidency, with Democratic control of the House and Senate, he has failed on a number of promises. […]
What’s the Republican Party so afraid of?
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an extended version of today’s editorial, containing additional information about what was in the For the People Act as well as additional quotes. For the shortened […]
