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How many GOP House members are mired in conflicts of interest? No one knows Salon 3/12/2021 Jason Smith, Mike Kelly and Vern Buchanan Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images After Congress passed the Paycheck Protection Program last year, pumping billions of dollars into small businesses struggling under the weight of the pandemic, reports surfaced that sizable chunks of that money went right back into the pockets of Congress. A slew of members, many of them already wealthy, received millions in federal aid for their personal businesses ventures under the a...

Blunt’s retirement is certain to spark a chaotic GOP primary campaign that could pit controversial former governor Eric Greitens against several sitting Missouri officials.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy also claimed Democrats are blocking Republican efforts to reopen schools.

For teachers, the riot is a tough subject to discuss Laura Meckler, Donna St. George, Hannah Natanson and Perry Stein, The Washington Post Jan. 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail David Stewart went to sleep Wednesday night wondering how he would explain the chaos that had transpired in the nation's capital that day, only 10 miles from Alexandria, Va., where he teaches elementary school. He decided to let his fourth-graders bring it up, and it didn't take much to open the floodgates, even over Zoom. Students said they were upset, angry and scared. "Some talked about how they were sad because they s...

“Ok, Republicans. If you want to talk about an election being rigged, let’s talk about it. You gerrymandered all of the red states, you suppressed the vote, you closed polling places, you removed drop boxes, you vilified mail-in voting, you disrupted the USPS, and you know what? You still lost.” – Mindy Fischer When the economy in a democratic but capitalist country fails, there are two alternatives. You can modify the economic system. Or, you can modify the political system. When you modify the economic system (capitalism) but retain the political system (democracy), you have the arr...