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Print this article Sen. Lindsey Graham says President Joe Biden has had little relationship with members of Congress since he first took office on Jan. 20. The South Carolina Republican told the Washington Examiner he hasnt spoken much with anyone from the administration on policy initiatives, but he believes the president has "not at all" followed through on his vows to unify the country by working with Republicans. When asked what has surprised him most about Bidens first 100 days, Graham t...

( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) Former MSNBC Host and liberal firebrand Chris Matthews started his career in politics, working for then-Speaker of the House and Reagan pal, Tip O’Neill.  Having worked as O’Neill’s Chief of Staff for 6 years, Matthews was a regular in welcoming other members of Congress and the President into meetings with the Speaker.  On the night of the 1982 State of the Union speech, Reagan was escorted by Matthews into a room before he was to enter the House Cham...

While Republicans, including even moderates like Maine Sen. Susan Collins, are lamenting President Biden’s lack of promised bipartisanship, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez says Biden is turning out to be even more of a socialist than she expected. A lot of people are attributing this to his left-wing advisers, pulling him away from his centrist tendencies. What centrist tendencies? Biden has always been liberal, never considered among the moderates in the Senate. Sure, he’s probably being inf...

The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2022 By Simone Pathe, CNN Updated 8:28 AM ET, Wed April 21, 2021 (CNN)Three months into President Joe Bidens term, the candidate fields are taking shape and the first early data is emerging about the fight for control of the chamber that will ultimately determine how successful he can be. On every hot-button issue of the day, whether on gun control or police reform, the evenly divided US Senate has been the biggest roadblock so far to Democrats capit...

April 20, 2021 Blog While Republicans in Congress did everything in their power to obstruct the American Rescue Plan, a majority of Americans – including 73 percent of Independents – support this crucial relief package.  Across party lines, Americans know the legislation is putting vaccines in arms, money in pockets, children back in school safely, and people back in jobs. Congressional Republicans voted against the needs of the American people.  And their politically motivated opp...

April 13, 2021 4:15 p.m. Chief executives from top Michigan-based corporations preemptively pushed back on a package of proposed changes to election law that will likely restrict voting access in Michigan and are set to be considered by the GOP-led state Senate this week. A group of more than 3o companies, including General Motors, Ford, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Quicken Loans, issued a joint statement on Tuesday. Last month, where corporations based in Georgia fumbled a...

KATHLEEN PARKER It wasn’t so long ago that disenfranchised Blacks and activist Whites were beaten and killed for attempting to secure the right to vote. Among the better-known victims were civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three young men who were abducted, shot at close range and buried in an earthen Mississippi dam on June 21, 1964. Part of the Freedom Summer, the three had hoped to register Black voters and educate them so they could pass the literacy...

by Tim Lynch Tim Lynch has taught for thirty years at Mount Saint Joseph University in Cincinnati, where he is a professor of History.  He has published extensively in the area of American labor history and protest music, including Strike Songs of the Depression (2001).  Most recently, Tim published To Build a Home: Reflections on Construction (2021) about his experience of building his own home.         The Republican Party may soon live up to its moniker, “The Party of Lincoln,...

You know what’s not? Roads & bridges. ONLY 5% OF BIDEN’s “INFRASTRUCTURE” BILL IS ROADS & BRIDGES. ???? https://t.co/jgP3ZEwGCy— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 7, 2021 No, Senator. These are all vital needs. I would argue they are as important as nuts and bolts and grids and networks. But when you drain a word of it’s meaning, you damage its impact, your cause, and the value of language. https://t.co/s3IGyzHKXr— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 7, 2021 Republicans like Senate Mi...

Voting rights advocates say election reforms proposed by Republican lawmakers in Michigan would make it harder for many Michiganders to vote. One described using a petition drive to enact some of the reforms as an "anti-voter power grab." The Detroit News reported state Republicans have openly discussed using a potential petition drive to enact some of the measures introduced in a 39-bill package unveiled by Michigan Senate Republicans in March. While Republicans have the votes to pass the p...