Is Dr. Oz Fit To Join the U.S. Senate?
The TV personality's extensive history of promoting dubious nostrums suggests that he isn't.
The TV personality's extensive history of promoting dubious nostrums suggests that he isn't.
The proposed vaping tax has caused a third Democrat to join Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema in opposing the bill.
"I'm open to supporting a final bill that helps move our country forward, but I'm equally open to voting against a bill that hurts our country," Manchin says.
If the power to his house went out during a storm, one assumes Hawley would declare electricity to be a mistake and demand that homes be lit with candles.
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The Senate's leading progressive seems to misunderstand the basic math of American democracy.
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Among Americans who aren't liberal pundits, the debt and deficit rank as major concerns. It's about time Congress noticed.
It is the equivalent of mandating that all new homes come with at least five bathrooms.
Cryptocurrency advocates fight back against major government overreach.
For now, the side that wants less cryptocurrency regulation and taxation lost.
Inside the dispute over gain-of-function research.
A proposal obtained by Politico would get rid of male-only language in an upcoming military service bill.
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Dean Chemerinsky has argued for and against the filibuster on both constitutional and policy grounds.
Some academics are urging VP Harris to declare the filibuster unconstitutional
Her response to questions from the Senate HELP committee were disqualifying.
The Senate majority leader's racial rhetoric and overly prescriptive approach make an already iffy effort even more quixotic.
A heterodox hero and committed antiwar activist, Gravel put the Pentagon Papers in the public record.
By effectively casting aside the filibuster while technically leaving it in place, Democrats can maintain the pretense that they played by the rules.
The "For The People Act" was a flawed package that would have solved some problems while creating new headaches.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is right: Democrats have more to lose by ending the filibuster than by putting up with it.
David Chipman's obfuscation, like the president's vagueness, is aimed at concealing the illogic of targeting firearms based on their "military-style" appearance.
Putting criticisms of the Senate, Electoral College, and Supreme Court in perspective.
If workers were as eager to join unions as President Joe Biden seems to think, they wouldn't need a more powerful NLRB to encourage that outcome.
The little-known but outrageous practice allows federal judges enhance defendants' sentence based on conduct a jury acquitted them of.
The U.S. Innovation and Competition Act is a lobbyist-crafted proposal that funnels emergency spending to politically connected special interests.
Polling shows a sharp partisan divide on the issue, but it also suggests that compromise might be possible.
From Mitch McConnell's perspective, an independent commission can only mean trouble.
Industrial policy is the wrong answer to a problem that mostly doesn't exist.
The Senate’s Endless Frontier Act aims to spur innovation but leaves out immigration reform.
Taxpayers already spend millions to build minor league ballparks. Sen. Richard Blumenthal thinks they should financially support the teams, too.
The GOP has resisted reining in the doctrine. That might change.
Even Joe Biden and Barack Obama were willing to acknowledge this basic fact just a few years ago.
Are Mitch McConnell's threats credible, or is he a paper tiger?
The Senate is preparing to pass a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that has very little to do with the pandemic, and we all know it. Congress should admit as much.
Under a bill the two senators reintroduced on Friday, all presidential emergency declarations would expire after 72 hours unless Congress votes to allow them to continue.
But the real reason why Democrats should abandon the effort to hike the federal minimum wage has nothing to do with arcane Senate rules or the filibuster.
The agency also missed an FBI bulletin citing "specific calls for violence."
The Senate minority leader's triangulation does not bode well for the GOP's ability to stand for something other than a personality cult.
Whether the reality-show-star-turned-first-president-to-be-impeached-twice has a future in American politics, however, sadly remains an open question.
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No amount of parsing can obscure his responsibility for the deadly attack on the Capitol.
He is on firmer ground in arguing that the Senate does not have the authority to try a former president, although that issue is highly contested.
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Senate Democrats will now take (partial) control of the Senate chamber.
The reconciliation process exists for a reason. Discarding it for political expediency should be viewed with skepticism.