The late-night TV landscape has been silenced by Hollywood strikes, leaving audiences with fewer laughs, depriving candidates of an easy way to get attention and generally upsetting the nation’s normal political discourse.
Instead of polishing monologue jokes or getting ready to poke fun at the crop of 2024 candidates, late-night's lineup of network funnymen — including NBC’s “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert “The Late Show” on CBS, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimme...
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Government shutdown lessons for the GOP
The Republican-led House of Representatives and the Democratic-led Senate are at a budget impasse once again, which could lead to a government shutdown at the end of the month. A group of conservative and mainstream House Republicans reportedly worked out an agreement over the weekend to fund the government through October through a continuing resolution, but it appears that some far-right House Freedom Caucus members are panning the deal. A few are even arguing that a government shutdo...
Government shutdown lessons for the GOP
The Republican-led House of Representatives and the Democratic-led Senate are at a budget impasse once again, which could lead to a government shutdown at the end of the month. A group of conservative and mainstream House Republicans reportedly worked out an agreement over the weekend to fund the government through October through a continuing resolution, but it appears that some far-right House Freedom Caucus members are panning the deal. A few are even arguing that a government shutdo...
Congress needs to follow Mitt Romney’s example, and let a new generation lead
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 83, has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 35 years, including eight as the first woman Speaker and third in line to the presidency. She has been inducted into the National Woman's Hall of Fame. Among many other achievements, she was instrumental in winning Congress's approval of the Affordable Care Act and the American Rescue Plan.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) was the Republican nominee for president in 2012. Utah's voters elected him ...
Congress needs to follow Mitt Romney’s example, and let a new generation lead
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 83, has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 35 years, including eight as the first woman Speaker and third in line to the presidency. She has been inducted into the National Woman's Hall of Fame. Among many other achievements, she was instrumental in winning Congress's approval of the Affordable Care Act and the American Rescue Plan.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) was the Republican nominee for president in 2012. Utah's voters elected him ...
White House faces challenges getting COVID shots to the uninsured
For the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government will not be able to ensure the shots for this fall's vaccination campaign will be available to the public for free.
When the public health emergency ended in May, so too did the administration's ability to purchase and distribute shots, tests and treatments for all Americans. The COVID vaccine is now commercialized, just like the flu shot and other vaccines.
Most health plans cover ro...
Veronica Duron: Chief of staff, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
In her winding path to Sen. Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) office, Veronica Duron has played a role in the key legislative battles of the last 15 years.
Rising from fellow to staff assistant to legislative correspondent to legislative assistant under former Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas), Duron soon learned that House staffers wear a multitude of policy hats.
"I was doing banking and finance policy during Dodd Frank, was doing housing policy and education policy when we were d...
Veronica Duron: Chief of staff, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
In her winding path to Sen. Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) office, Veronica Duron has played a role in the key legislative battles of the last 15 years.
Rising from fellow to staff assistant to legislative correspondent to legislative assistant under former Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas), Duron soon learned that House staffers wear a multitude of policy hats.
"I was doing banking and finance policy during Dodd Frank, was doing housing policy and education policy when we were d...
No point at all: Please just end the daily White House press briefing
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has demonstrated once again why it's time to do away with the insulting spectacle known as the White House daily press briefing.
Rather than serve the public interest, the daily briefing has become a venue for White House propaganda. It has also become a springboard for shrewd, self-serving reporters who see the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room as a shortcut to easy notoriety. It has been this way for many years. It is...
Congress under the gun on must-pass health bills
Lawmakers returning to Washington are far apart on a series of must-pass health care bills that could have far-reaching consequences on local health centers, federal authority and pandemic preparedness.
The bills will be part of a post-recess scramble as the House and Senate return ahead of a Sept. 30 government funding deadline.
The White House has called on Congress to pass a short-term funding bill, which could buy time for further negotiations on some of the ...