Collins votes against restoring Maine’s NIH research grants
A study to improve rural health care in Maine is currently on ice.
By Jesse Valentine - August 06, 2025
A study to improve rural health care in Maine is currently on ice.
By Jesse Valentine - August 06, 2025
Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Justice Clarence Thomas are all facing questions about their financial disclosures.
By Josh Israel - May 01, 2023
The Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements to be added to the Constitution, yet it remains unadopted.
By 19th News - March 16, 2023
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) didn’t object to the Supreme Court nominee’s record when he voted to confirm her earlier nominations to the federal bench.
By Emily Singer - March 22, 2022
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin called the quick confirmation process ‘a contemporary standard.’
By Associated Press - March 05, 2022
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told Congress in March 2019 that there has been ‘no parent who has been deported, to my knowledge, without multiple opportunities to take their children with them.’
By Associated Press - May 25, 2021
Stacey Abrams said federal legislation to strike down hurdles to voting is ‘essential to the protection of democracy.’
By Associated Press - April 22, 2021
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said that the filibuster has a ‘death grip on American democracy.’
By Emily Singer - March 16, 2021
Progressive groups note that the existing system lets the Senate minority ‘nullify the results of the election and block progress on popular legislation.’
By Josh Israel - February 09, 2021
Lindsey Graham is blocking confirmation of Merrick Garland — again.
By Emily Singer - February 02, 2021
‘We must move our country towards accountability and healing.’
By Amy Lieu - January 22, 2021
In the eight years since the massacre, Republicans have refused to pass legislation to prevent mass shootings from being committed again and again.
By Donna Provencher - December 14, 2020
‘It’s not up to me to be in the business of expressing views.’
By Donna Provencher - October 15, 2020
‘I can’t answer questions like that.’
By Donna Provencher - October 14, 2020
Two members of Congress have been diagnosed with COVID-19 so far.
By Associated Press - March 19, 2020
Trump is taking military personnel away from their families for a month in order to paint the border wall for ‘aesthetic’ purposes.
By Emily Singer - June 06, 2019
Republicans are using Hillary Clinton and conspiracy theories about the FBI to try to distract from Trump’s wrongdoing and Attorney General Barr’s cover-up.
By Oliver Willis - May 01, 2019
Trump doesn’t care who he’s taking money from.
By Emily Singer - March 08, 2019
Neomi Rao, Trump’s nominee to take Brett Kavanaugh’s old seat on the federal judiciary, has a history of making shockingly hateful remarks.
By Emily Singer - February 05, 2019
Senate Democrats say Republicans are misleading the public about evidence of inappropriate behavior by Kavanaugh in prior FBI background checks.
By Caroline Orr - October 03, 2018
Donald Trump is starting to realize what a political disaster he has created with his racist remarks about blocking immigration from shitholes like Haiti and Africa. His newest response, true to form, is to deny he said it at all, claiming it was not the language used. But it is too late for him to […]
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