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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., reacted to President Trump calling the coronavirus relief bill a disgrace.
Public approval of Congress sank to just 15 percent in the latest Gallup poll, but lawmakers are determined to find out how low they can go. That’s one explanation, at least, for all the unrelated junk they tossed into the massive pandemic-relief/government-funding bill.
The public fury is surely driven by the months-long standoff over passing any relief, even as key provisions of early stimulus bills were expiring.
And now this: a $2.3 trillion monstrosity that includes countless items that never would’ve passed on their own 5,593 pages that members couldn’t possibly read before they had to vote on it, knowing it was a must-pass because of the desperately needed relief it contained.
State and Federal Immigration Policy Challenges Republicans and Democrats The politics of immigration policy are tricky for both parties. Andy Kim | September 2010
The immigration issue seems to run like the tides it ebbs and flows in a rhythm that appears to be coordinated with the economy s health. Not too many years ago, a lot of states allowed illegal immigrants to obtain driver s licenses, health benefits or even receive in-state tuition to attend college. But as the economy has soured, illegal immigration has flowed back into the mainstream of ultra-sensitive issues.
Both the substance and politics of the immigration dilemma are complicated, for both political parties and at the federal and state levels.
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Amid a crisis like ‘we’ve never seen,’ Biden drives to fill Cabinet
The president-elect s transition team has already launched an all-hands-on-deck push to ensure smooth confirmation of its picks.
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped a vast network of current and former elected officials, interest groups, CEOs, and others to take part in lobbying efforts for his Cabinet picks. | Joshua Roberts/Getty Images
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It was April 2009 when then-Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius received a phone call from the Obama White House. A plane was on its way to bring her to Washington to be sworn in as the Health and Human Services secretary.
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TEN MORE DAYS OF CLIFF DIVING – President Obama is standing by his refusal to negotiate over the ongoing partial government shutdown and the looming debt-limit bust, so House Speaker
John Boehner and Treasury Secretary
Jack Lew took their talks on the fiscal crisis to the airwaves in dueling Sunday show appearances. The conclusions: The partial shutdown is bound to last for at least another 10 days and the stakes are growing by the hour as Americans come to believe Obama is serious about not budging. Boehner and House Republicans are unified behind a pressure play: They keep passing bills to provide funding for popular programs and Democrats’ sacred cows, particularly retroactive pay guarantees to government workers. If Obama remains aloof from the process, things are going to get very dicey on Wall Street and Main Street. To wit: Markets were already hitting the skids thi