President Joe Biden won t accept any infrastructure plans that would index the gas tax, including the proposals floated Thursday by Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney and Delaware Democratic Sen. Tom Carper.
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The Senate voted 51–48 on Tuesday to confirm Kristen Clarke as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. All 50 Senate Democrats and Maine Republican Susan Collins voted in the affirmative.
Clarke has been one of President Biden’s more controversial nominees to date. Among other matters, Clarke published a
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Newsweek op-ed. During her Senate confirmation hearing this year, Clarke claimed: “I do not support defunding the police.” She blamed the editors for assigning the headline to her piece, but in the text of the article she called the “defund the police” slogan a “unifying call.”
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For all its talk about unity and bipartisanship, President Joe Biden’s administration has little experience joining with Republicans and, in many cases, has rejected working with the GOP.
The proof is in the latest “Bipartisan Index” from the Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, which scores House and Senate members and their outreach across the aisle to co-sponsor major legislation.
Consider Vice President Kamala Harris, the former California senator. Of the 250 senators ranked between 1993 and 2018, she scored 246, at the bottom and well below notable partisans Hillary Clinton of New York, Jesse Helms of North Carolina, and liberal Californian Barbara Boxer.
Democrat Joe Neguse ranked as the most bipartisan member of Colorado s House delegation in the last Congress, according to the latest index released this week by the nonpartisan Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.
Former U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, however, produced by far the most bipartisan record among the state s D.C. denizens during the two years before voters sent the Yuma Republican packing.
Neguse, of Lafayette, landed in the top 10% of House members on the scale, which measures how often lawmakers legislation attracts co-sponsors from across the aisle and how often they sign on to bills sponsored by members of the other party.