The number of democratic socialists in the U.S. House of Representatives will soon double — from two to four. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs (D-NY) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), both elected as part of the 2018 blue wave, will be joined in January by Cori Bush...
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" proposing to substantially rewrite the US antitrust laws along the lines proposed by prominent Democrats, including Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and FTC Commissioner nominee Lina Khan. Sen. Hawley's plan would prohibit so-called "mega corporations"—those with a market-...
Tipping the gender balance in Congress was always going to be hard if only one party was electing large numbers of women, and as you can see in the chart below, that has largely been the case so far, with Democrats electing far more women than Republicans. The GOP made strides th...
House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Gaetz: “It’s hard to speculate on rumors, but if something really formal happened from Justice we would of course react and take action.”pic.twitter.com/cJGjom922o — The Recount (@therecount)Apri...
was "still unclear what exactly happened to her body," according to the briefing materials provided to Senate Democrats. There were a number of cases that resulted in lasting confusion. One woman was deported to El Salvador and thinks that she had a hysterectomy but remains unsure, according to...
Maryland’s Kimberly Klacik and Ohio’s Lavern Gore areall Republicans who ran in mostly urban Democratic districts, but none won on election night. All Black female congresswomen – with the exception ofUtah’s Mia Love, who servedtwo terms in the House– have been Democra...
Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMESWe got a chuckle out of the recent crack by Rep. Spencer Bachus that there are 17 socialist members of the U.S. House of Representatives, but we are puzzled by the Alabama Republican's math. Surely the number of socialists in Congress is much higher than 17...
Instead of offering "real solutions," the prime minister charged, Poilievre "stands up, crosses his arms, throws up his hands and says, 'everything is broken.'" Trudeau also faced questions Monday from the New Democrats on his commitment to publicly-funded health care...
The attempt to defend the insurrectionists came on the same day that House Republicans voted to oust Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney from their leadership team for repeatedly rebuking Trump for his false claims that the election was stolen. Cheney voted with Democrats to impeach Tr...