Before Vice President Harris swore in Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) last week, she offered a rare glimpse of levity.
“Hello, Madame Vice President!” Bennet said in his classic baritone voice as he walked into the Old Senate Chamber.
“Hello, Senator Bennet!” Harris replied, echoing Bennet’s pitch to a T.
The moment went viral on Twitter, with some commenters on the social media platform asking to see more of those lighter, organic m...
Month: January 2023
Harris navigates double standard in unscripted moments as VP
Before Vice President Harris swore in Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) last week, she offered a rare glimpse of levity.
“Hello, Madame Vice President!” Bennet said in his classic baritone voice as he walked into the Old Senate Chamber.
“Hello, Senator Bennet!” Harris replied, echoing Bennet’s pitch to a T.
The moment went viral on Twitter, with some commenters on the social media platform asking to see more of those lighter, organic m...
Medicaid expansion linked with fewer postpartum hospitalizations: research
Story at a glance
- Medicaid expansion states saw lower rates of postpartum hospitalizations compared with those that have not adopted the policy.
- Just 11 states have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
- The new data suggest expanding Medicaid can improve maternal health outcomes among low-income Americans.
States that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Ac...
The American public no longer believes the Supreme Court is impartial
Never in recent history, perhaps, have so many Americans viewed the Supreme Court as fundamentally partisan.
Public approval of the nine-justice panel stands near historic lows. Declining faith in the institution seems rooted in a growing concern that the high court is deciding cases on politics, rather than law. In one recent poll, a majority of Americans opined that Supreme Court justices let partisan views influence major rulings.
Three quart...
The American public no longer believes the Supreme Court is impartial
Never in recent history, perhaps, have so many Americans viewed the Supreme Court as fundamentally partisan.
Public approval of the nine-justice panel stands near historic lows. Declining faith in the institution seems rooted in a growing concern that the high court is deciding cases on politics, rather than law. In one recent poll, a majority of Americans opined that Supreme Court justices let partisan views influence major rulings.
Three quart...
Nurses deserve better, but strikes aren’t the answer
More than 7,000 nurses at New York’s Montefiore Medical Center and Mt. Sinai Hospital walked off the job this week, arguing that staff shortages have led to burnout and the inability to properly care for patients.
Ironically, with only more than 75,000 licensed nurses in New York City, the nurses on strike will put a terrible burden on not just these hospitals but others too where the spillover of patients seeking care occurs.
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We have a Republican Speaker, but no Republican plan to speak of
Republicans have vehemently complained that President Biden and Democrats are taking the country and the economy in the wrong direction. But now that Republicans control the House of Representatives, what specifically do they intend to do instead? Your guess is as good as mine, because Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) never laid out a detailed plan.
It’s not a new problem for Republicans.
Remember when Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, in March...
We have a Republican Speaker, but no Republican plan to speak of
Republicans have vehemently complained that President Biden and Democrats are taking the country and the economy in the wrong direction. But now that Republicans control the House of Representatives, what specifically do they intend to do instead? Your guess is as good as mine, because Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) never laid out a detailed plan.
It’s not a new problem for Republicans.
Remember when Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, in March...
Five Senate Democrats who could retire ahead of 2024
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Messy new Congress and coming gridlock: Founders intended governing to be difficult
With Democrats holding the narrowest possible majority in the Senate (one seat) and Republicans holding a slim majority in the House of Representatives (nine seats out of 435), you would expect to see the two parties working together. More likely, we will see even greater polarization in Congress, with conservatives wielding greater influence among Republicans and a more assertive progressive left in the Democratic Party.
That’s because more and more states and districts are d...