Fox News is repeatedly lying about H.R. 1 and S. 1, the For the People Act, which recently passed in the House of Representatives and now is before the Senate. Most of the falsehoods pushed by Fox are recycled from past right-wing voter suppression efforts, but challenges to the constitutionality of the bill are a new twist.
However, the false claims that the For the People Act is unconstitutional because it asserts federal control over the states are an ahistorical “caricature of an argument.” Rather, this lie is in part a byproduct of a failed argument of the former president in his efforts to baselessly challenge the legitimacy of the 2020 election results. Worse, the argument is an ugly reminder of the type of voter suppression the Reconstruction amendments and the civil rights movement were supposed to prevent.
Originally published on March 13, 2021 6:19 am
With the passage this week of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, the United States is now on track to spend some $6 trillion in total on measures related to ending the pandemic.
Among the plans most vocal supporters is Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who, as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, helped shepherd the plan through Congress. Sanders says this latest round of appropriations will do no less than rebuild the economy, safely fill classrooms again and help restore faith in the government. In my view, this particular piece of legislation is the most consequential piece of legislation for working families passed in many, many decades, Sanders says in an interview with NPR s
Americans Getting $1,400 Stimulus Checks Don t Care About GOP Support, Bernie Sanders Says
On 3/13/21 at 1:09 PM EST
Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders said Americans who will receive $1,400 checks from President Joe Biden s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan don t care if GOP lawmakers supported it they re just desperate for help amid the pandemic.
On Saturday, Sanders reiterated his belief that he and Democratic legislators will continue to rebuild our economy, get our kids back to school with or without Republican support. Not a single Republican senator or member of the House of Representatives voted in favor of the COVID-19 relief package last week.
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is the most consequential piece of legislation for working families passed in many, many decades, he told National Public Radio (NPR).
Myer STROUSE, Congress, PA (1825-1878) STROUSE Myer , a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Oberstrau, Bavaria, Germany, December 16, 1825;
immigrated to the United States in 1832 with his father, who settled in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa.;
attended private schools;
edited the North American Farmer in Philadelphia 1848-1852;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Pottsville;
elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1866;
resumed the practice of law;
was attorney and solicitor for the ``Molly Maguires, a secret organization in the mining regions of Pennsylvania, in 1876 and 1877;
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