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Lori Lightfoot’s bid for reelection has been weighed down by a growing amount of evidence that she has governed at times more like an old-school machine politician than a reformer.

Away. there is nothing to say if you pass the john lewis voting rights act, roberts wouldnt take it away again. i preferred hr 1 to the freedom to vote act. what did joe mansion, think about this, what did president mansion want out of the hr 1 that he wanted -- that he did not put into his freedom to vote act? all the ethics reforms forcing a person to release their tax returns before they run for president. prohibiting presidents from funneling money from the oval office to their family run bu...

Something similar. they want to take out the campaign finance and the ethics reforms and other things from for the people act and focus just on access to the polls. now, this new push is coming as progressives are really pushing leadership to do it. also some of these members are facing tough redistricting and tough re-elections. they say time is of the essence. senator raphael warnock of georgia who is leading this push in the senate said that voting rights is just as important as everything el...

Country. senator durbin, thank you very much for working with senator lee and senator grassley and senator booker. thats a big deal thats going to change lives, i think, in a positive way. so this committee has within it the ability to do big things long overdue. i know senator blackburn wants to do something on social media. senator klobuchar has ideas if you put an ad on social media you have to stand by it. we are all worried about the social media platforms being hijacked by terrorists and b...

Majority, pelosi and the democrats have passed legislation with their offer to end the shutdown and introduce legislation on voting rights, ethics reforms, and the bid to require presidential tax returns. if those bills make it out of the new democratic house, they will still need to clear the still republican senate, where mitch mcconnell holds sway if theyre ever going to reach to it the presidents desk. joy reid, host of "a.m. joy" sat down with speaker pelosi for an exclusive town hall. its ...

Comparative wilderness on capitol hill, nancy pelosi is now the most powerful and important democrat in american politics. the speaker of the house and the highest ranking democrat in donald trumps washington. pelosi claiming back the speakers gavel yesterday, and joined by a large and diverse new class of democrats. the democratic freshman include 24 people of color, 42 new female members and the first native american women. in the hours since retaking the majority, pelosi and the democrats hav...

Now the most powerful and important democrat in american politics. the speaker of the house and the highest ranking democrat in donald trumps washington. pelosi claiming back the speakers gavel yesterday, and joined by a large and diverse new class of democrats. the democratic freshman include 24 people of color, 42 new female members and the first native american women. in the hours since retaking the majority, pelosi and the democrats have passed legislation with their offer to end the shutdow...

Speaker. rob: the vote fell along party lines with nancy pelosi getting 220 votes. house minority leader kenneth mccarthy with 192 votes. with their new powerhouse democrats approve most of the sweeping rules package that restricts new spending defeating progressive blowback from the like of alexandria ocasio-cortez and new ethics reforms and shakes up several key voting procedures and committees. the new chairs are jerry nadler of the house judiciary committee, adam schiff, chair of the house i...

>> just think about what we can accomplish in the first 100 days of a trump administration. we are going to have the biggest tax cuts since ronald reagan. >> the white house has done what it could on its own through executive orders and administrative actions. some measures working out better than others. both versions of the presidents travel ban were blocked in court. but when you want to get big stuff done and your party holds both the senate and the house, the thing you do is pass legislatio...

Both versions of the presidents travel ban were blocked in court. but when you want to get big stuff done and your party holds both the senate and the house, the thing you do is pass legislation. the presidents 100-day plan laid out ten legislative measures on his agenda, everything from tax cuts to ethics reforms. as of tonight, the president is 0 for 10. thats right, not a single one has passed. now with the 100-day deadline moving and no big achievements to promote, the administration appears...