A history of the filibuster and why it should be tougher to mount
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The filibuster is still a critical device when used properly in the Senate, but it should be tougher to invoke.
Search Results for U.S. House
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John W. Whitehead: End the government’s war on America’s military veterans
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The 2020 presidential election may be over, but nothing has really changed. The U.S. government still poses the greatest threat to our freedoms.
Trump fires defense secretary: FBI, CIA directors could be next
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President Trump, reeling from his defeat in last week’s presidential election, announced Monday that he has fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, effective immediately.
What we learned from how Waynesboro voted in 2020
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Joe Biden outperformed Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in Waynesboro with his 46.3 percent showing in the 2020 election. That’s the good news. The head-scratcher: that the guy who barely tried actually ended up beating Mark Warner in the city in the U.S. Senate race.
Climate Action Alliance of the Valley news roundup: Week of Nov. 8
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Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News.
Virginia Tech’s Karen Hult: Not too early to start thinking of Biden presidential transition
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Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden launched his transition team website Wednesday even as vote counting continued in key battleground states and the outcome of the election remained uncertain.
America after the election: A few hard truths about the things that won’t change
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The American people remain eager to be persuaded that a new president in the White House can solve the problems that plague us.
Climate Action Alliance of the Valley: Climate, energy news for week of Nov. 1
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Climate Action Alliance of the Valley produces The Weekly Roundup of Climate and Energy News.
Can the Republican Party ignore climate change forever?
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Americans, regardless of political affiliation, all live on this planet together and share its ecosystems and resources. Yet there is a deep divide among us with regard to environmental policies and climate change.
Something wicked this way comes: Anarchy is being loosed upon the nation
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How much longer we can sustain the fiction that we live in a constitutional republic, I cannot say, but anarchy is being loosed upon the nation.
