Marijuana, natural gas tax and higher minimum wage: Pa. Gov. Wolf’s budget plan carries familiar themes
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
Posted Feb 01, 2021
Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf delivers his 2020-21 budget address in the House of Representatives as then-Speaker Mike Turzai and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman look on. Wolf will be delivering Wednesday s budget address via video. Joe Hermitt | jhermitt@pennlive.com
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This story has been updated to show that the address has been moved to Wednesday.
With an expectation that millions of COVID-19 vaccines will become available to Pennsylvanians in the coming weeks and months, Gov. Tom Wolf is focusing on a policy agenda that leads the state into a post-pandemic world.
Alabama GOP lawmakers push back against gun, security restrictions at Capitol following riot
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
Posted Feb 01, 2021
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo violent rioters, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol in Washington. The words of Donald Trump supporters who are accused of participating in the deadly U.S. Capitol riot may end up being used against him in his Senate impeachment trial as he faces the charge of inciting a violent insurrection. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)AP
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The fallout from the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol building is creating a new arena in the federal battle over gun rights.
Feb. 1, 2021
Susan Collins is among the Republican senators who want President Biden to spend far less on pandemic relief.Credit.Alexander Drago/Reuters
So 10 Republican senators are proposing an economic package that is supposed to be an alternative to President Biden’s American Rescue Plan. The proposal is only a third of the size of Biden’s plan and would in important ways cut the heart out of economic relief.
Republicans, however, want Biden to give in to their wishes in the name of bipartisanship. Should he?
No, no, 1.9 trillion times, no.
It’s not just that the G.O.P. proposal is grotesquely inadequate for a nation still ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic. Beyond that, by their behavior not just over the past few months but going back a dozen years Republicans have forfeited any right to play the bipartisanship card, or even to be afforded any presumption of good faith.
What Should Drive Bidenâs Foreign Policy?
The fiery Cold War liberalism of Hubert Humphrey provides a guide on how to act, abroad and at home.
By James Traub
Mr. Traub, a columnist for Foreign Policy, is writing a book about the rise and fall of liberalism that centers on Hubert Humphrey.
Jan. 29, 2021
Senator Hubert Humphrey.Credit.Grey Villet/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images
In May 1950, Hubert Humphrey, the firebrand liberal from Minnesota, took to the floor of the Senate to call for passage of a fair employment practices commission to root out systematic racial discrimination in hiring. âSo long as men and women and children of color are discriminated against in the United States,â Senator Humphrey insisted, âthe colored people of the world have the right to suspect our professed friendship for them.â