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The freak show is winding down, the media circus is packing the cameras and satellite dishes and hairspray back into the vans, and Congress.. ..

the biggest issues for states to watch in 2019

How much more financial support they can expect to see from Congress remains up in the air, but the new Democratic majority in the U.S. ... House Speaker Paul Ryan tried a couple of years ago to add work requirements in one of Congress’ many efforts to dismantle the program. ..

january, 2019

In fact, public parks are often a significant pawn in budget battles, so much so the term 'closing the Washington Monument' has become shorthand for using popular public facilities as a leverage point in spending fights (the fact that politicians always threaten to close the MOST popular public services when..

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Nancy Pelosi of California will probably replace Ryan after the new Congress is sworn in January. . The VP and a majority of Trump’s 24 cabinet members could begin the process instead of Congress. ..

environmental impacts of coal

Congress that climate change was underway in 1988, has been particularly critical of the coal industry, stating that coal contributes the largest percentage of anthropogenic carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. ..

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what does it mean to be a conservative in the age of trump?

Our current screwed-up politics is, in part, consequence of overreaching decisions made Washington over the last few decades the choice to turn judicial confirmations into hyperpartisan cage fights, the choice by Congress to surrender power to unelected bureaucrats. ..

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