Lawmakers call for the removal of President Trump from office; constitutional law expert Mark Smith with insight.
The Big Idea is a series that asks top lawmakers and figures to discuss their moonshot what’s the one proposal, if politics and polls and even price tag were not an issue, they’d implement to change the country for the better?
With narrow margins in both the House and the Senate, and President-elect Biden set to take office on Jan. 20, Democrats in Congress are setting their sights on the Hyde Amendment, a federal ban on taxpayer money directly financing abortion.
But Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, says he ll fight to protect what he sees as a major compromise between those who are pro-life and those who are pro-choice in a divided country.
These Freshman Lawmakers Will Join AOC and the Squad in the Progressive Caucus
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The November election saw a number of victories for fresh Republican faces like Representative Madison Cawthorn, who replaced Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the youngest member of Congress, and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory. But Sunday s swearing in of new congressional members also includes a number of progressives.
The so-called Squad, a group of progressive House Democrats including Ocasio-Cortez as well as Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, inducted a second class of new representatives, thus bolstering the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which includes Senator Bernie Sanders.
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WASHINGTON Sunday marks the end of a 37-year era when a Lipinski either Dan or his father Bill represented Illinois in Congress.
“I didn’t fit neatly into the Democratic Party,” Rep. Dan Lipinski said in an exit interview with the Sun-Times. We discussed his career and what is ahead for him.
When the 117th Congress kicks off at noon, Marie Newman, who beat Lipinski in the March Democratic primary, will represent Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District, which sweeps in some of the western suburbs and a patchwork of Southwest Side precincts in Chicago, the original Lipinski family power base.