Despite pressure from progressive Democrats, the House rules package for the 116th Congress will include a pay-as-you-go provision, requiring all new ...
In the first outline of the legislative agenda House Democrats would pursue if they take the majority in November, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has made the ...
The Blue Dog Coalition of centrist Democrats on Monday stepped up its push for House Democratic leaders to abide by the chamber's pay-as-you-go rule and ...
In the first vote of the 116th Congress on Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was one of just three Democrats who split with their party and voted ...
It's a difficult time to be a deficit hawk. In March, Congress passed the CARES Act, named to show what lawmakers on both sides of the aisle wanted to be seen ...
Now that Republicans have stopped pretending to care about the deficit, it's time for Democrats to stop actually caring about the deficit. Unfortunately, we have a ...
The “pay-go” rule is more proof that establishment Democrats would rather kneecap bold redistributive policies than embrace an emerging left-wing agenda.
It wasn't a coincidence that moments after Nancy Pelosi promised progressive House leaders more power in the next Congress, a host of liberal groups ...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez failed in her long-shot bid for a seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, according to an announcement from House ...
House Democrats assume their first majority in eight years tomorrow, but already, they're hard at work to limit the usefulness of anything they might pass over the ...
At the risk of counting chickens before they hatch, what would the return of Team Blue portend? As is patently obvious, the US is in trouble. Climate driven heat ...
In the rest of the country, she is deeply unpopular. That, too, is a fact. A RealClearPolitics average of polls has her at 15 points under water and arguably less ...
Nearly three-quarters of the American public and a historic number of Democratic lawmakers support Medicare for All, but the House Democratic leadership is ...
(NerdWallet/Gray News) - Financial coach and business owner Nadia Busseuil has been working hard to make her day-to-day purchases as contactless as ...
Co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) introduced a bill Friday to repeal pay-as-you-go budgetary rules, a stipulation ...
Underlying the resistance of Nancy Pelosi and the House leadership to the “Squad” of progressive freshmen Democrats of color is a presumption that, while it's ...
When the new House Democratic leadership reinstated “pay-as-you-go” budget requirements in their package of rules changes, some progressives protested.
The remark drifted quietly past nearly all political watchers, but inside Congress, it reverberated like a patch of rolling thunder. “I'm not worried what Wendell ...
Last year, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act bill was one for the few substantive legislative initiatives to pass the House of Representatives ...
A raft of big-name business groups is warning many employers won't participate in President Donald Trump's payroll tax deferral plan. Calling it “unworkable,” ...
One (yes, one) month ago, on February 24, during a CNN town hall, Chris Cuomo asked Sen. Bernie Sanders how he planned to pay for his free college plan.
WASHINGTON — All across the country, Democratic candidates are sending a message: We're the party that isn't afraid to think big. Elect us, they say, and we'll ...
Why is Nancy Pelosi protecting Donald Trump? There's no point burbling about whether she is. From felony campaign finance violations, to collaborating with ...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted a taunting rebuttal after Republicans booed her for voting for newly elected Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Just a few months ago, it seemed like Nancy Pelosi's bid to become speaker of the House of Representatives was in trouble. While attacks from the right had ...
Candidate Tom Gallagher blamed Shahid Buttar for throwing the last primary to the Republicans, and Agatha Bacelar fought off charter-school allegations as ...
The "pay-for game" is that gotcha game that Conservatives like to play, wherein the ridiculous boondoggles favored by the right (billions for Trump's wall, more ...
As predictable as death and taxes is the quadrennial injunction from liberals for progressive third parties to cease and desist. Equally predictable is the ...
A recent piece in The Hill has said that Social Security is entering a new era. They're right, Social Security is entering a new era – and it needs to be ...
Speaker Paul D. Ryan and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fielded fewer reporter questions than usual during their weekly press conferences Thursday so ...
On her first day in Congress, Kansas Democrat Sharice Davids helped elect Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House and supporter her policies. It's a sign that ...
The Bloomberg News headline on November 2 was stark: “Nancy Pelosi Is Worried 2020 Candidates Are on Wrong Track.” Wrong track as in, the Democrats are ...
Q: Is it true that under the GOP tax bill, Medicare will stop covering cancer treatment? A: No. Nothing about the tax bill would end cancer treatment benefits.
By The Signal Editorial Board. Between now and May 12, voters in the Santa Clarita Valley and the rest of California's 25th Congressional District have an ...
*Fresh* off of taking back the House and looking toward 2020, Democrats might do well to embrace the center: common-sense, compassionate politics that cut ...
House Democratic leaders passed over New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive freshman firebrands for membership on the ...
When it comes to the perennial question of how to "pay for" the big-ticket items on the progressive agenda—from a Green New Deal to Medicare for All to ...
Two of America's most progressive leaders are teaming up to tackle the housing crisis. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Sen. Bernie ...
Called the Equality Act, the bill is a top priority of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who said it will bring the nation 'closer to equal liberty and justice for all.'
President Trump on Monday spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as House Democrats appeared to close in on a deal with the White House to ...
In July, in the midst of messy negotiations to send billions in emergency funding to the border, a fight over the future of the Democratic Party bubbled into view.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday rejected an offer from Senate GOP leaders to end the standoff over the fate of certain immigrants ...
If President Donald Trump signs the deal into law, he will have authorized a 22 percent increase in federal discretionary spending during his first term in office.
A Tulsa County group advocating to reform the entire court collection process believes treating court debt as a civil rather than criminal matter would do more ...
In an interview, the left primary challenger discusses everything from how Democrats have failed to protect working class interests to the need for a Marshall plan ...
In a signal that Democratic voters aren't satisfied with timid steps to address the human-made global climate crisis, new polling from Data for Progress—initially ...
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over Department of Labor regulations her office said illegally narrow ...
In January, Gov. Gavin Newsom presented a proposed budget for fiscal year 2020-2021 which envisioned a several billion dollar increase in spending for ...
As the national debt soars with pandemic bailouts, ideas like free college drift further from the headlines. Meanwhile, the effects of the economic carnage mean ...
It's official, the Republican Party has been wiped out of California. Decimated isn't even the right word, with its origins in the Roman military punishment by ...
A progressive activist who identified himself as diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS) confronted Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) on an airplane this week over ...
Americans are split when rating the federal government's response to the coronavirus crisis as the U.S. braces for a surge in cases in April, according to a new ...
Saying Northampton County's executive is underpaid considering his responsibilities and citing difficulty attracting candidates for controller, County Council is ...
Metra will not raise fares in 2020 and is budgeting money for $2.6 billion in improvements to its rail cars, locomotives, stations, bridges and *service*. Metra said it ...
Arizona lawmakers split on party lines, like much of the rest of the House, as Democrats pushed through a bill that would protect millions of "Dreamers" from ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has never enjoyed a firmer hold on the leash of her 255-member caucus — but the Blue Dogs are starting to strain against the ...
Connecticut is in deep trouble, and many around the country believe this great state is in serious decline. Years of Democratic General Assemblies, and ...
Emily Newlan, who runs a small consulting company in Gaithersburg, joined other business owners Thursday morning for a meeting with Maryland's U.S. ...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday announced new qualifying standards for the upcoming Arizona debate that will leave only the top two ...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Republicans are running up against two deadlines. The first is Friday. That's when the federal government could shut down unless a ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Californians are being asked to decide if Uber, Lyft and other app-based drivers should remain independent contractors or be eligible for ...
Sargent Metal Fabricators Anderson, South Carolina 4:45 P.M. EDT THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, hello, South Carolina! (Applause.) Would you all join me in t.
Self-described socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and progressive firebrand Rashida Tlaib are among the freshman representatives slated to join California ...
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson backed away on Friday from a plan to triple the minimum rent that the poorest Americans pay for ...
By Paul Kane Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about ...
Last fall, the Wall Street Journal estimated Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care plan would cost the government a whopping $15 trillion over a decade.
There's been a spate of articles about how Trump has "taken over" the Republican Party. For example, New York Times columnist Charles Blow opened a recent ...
It hasn't gotten the same amount of attention as some of his more controversial comments, but one of the policy proposals Donald Trump has floated -- imposing ...
