by Michael McGough In his speech about voting rights on Tuesday, President Joe Biden told the audience at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia that he wasn’t “preaching to you.” But that was false humility. Biden’s speech was very much a sermon, and an effective ...
But not for the reasons you think by Charlie Cooper News media gave a distorted picture of the historic importance of the fair-elections legislation offered by Democrats in the U.S. Congress. To be fair, it’s not easy to describe this mammoth bill with its many aspects. Most ...
by Patricia Murphy When I tell people that I cover politics for a living, the response I almost always hear is that people want Congress, or the Legislature, or fill-in-the-blank-government-entity to “put politics aside and solve problems.” “Why can’t they just do that?” ...
by David L. Nevins This week, our congressional dysfunction continued as the vote on the For the People Act was along purely partisan lines with a vote of 50 Democrats in favor and 50 Republicans against. The level of dysfunction is heightened by the fact that this was not a vote to ...
by Doyle McManus The Democrats’ sprawling voting rights bill, known on Capitol Hill as HR 1, is dead. Officially, the bill is still clinging to life. But Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, the majority party’s stubbornly maverick 50th vote, signed its writ of execution recently, ...
A week ago, Sen. Joe Manchin announced in a Charleston Gazette-Mail op-ed he would not support HR 1/S 1, also known as the For the People Act. HR 1 is a federal reaction to the slew of voter-suppression laws cropping up in individual states. The goal is to make sure that elections are as ...