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[TRENDING NEWS] The Year America Lost Its Democracy

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Author: BY FARHAD MANJOO - Publish Date: December 9, 2021 at 03:00AM Republicans mounted an all-out assault on voting rights. Democrats did little to stop them.

[TRENDING NEWS] The Ghosts of Mississippi

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Author: BY CHARLES M. BLOW - Publish Date: December 6, 2021 at 03:00AM Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is another Mississippi case poised to roll back constitutional rights.

[TRENDING NEWS] What an America Without Roe Would Look Like

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Author: BY CLAIRE CAIN MILLER AND MARGOT SANGER-KATZ - Publish Date: December 6, 2021 at 12:25AM Legal abortions would fall, particularly among poor women in the South and Midwest, and out-of-state travel and abortion pills would play a bigger role.

[TRENDING NEWS] Who Will Hold Prosecutors Accountable?

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Author: BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Publish Date: December 5, 2021 at 03:07AM The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility needs an overhaul.

[TRENDING NEWS] Senate Republicans Threaten Shutdown Over Vaccine Mandates

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Author: BY EMILY COCHRANE - Publish Date: December 2, 2021 at 02:08AM With federal funding set to lapse on Friday, President Biden’s mandate for large employers has emerged as a sticking point over a stopgap spending bill.

[TRENDING NEWS] What Happens When It’s Too Late to Get an Abortion

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Author: BY DIANA GREENE FOSTER - Publish Date: November 23, 2021 at 01:11AM Being denied an abortion can have serious consequences for a women’s health and livelihood. It can even be deadly.

[TRENDING NEWS] In the House and the Senate, Nancy Pelosi Gets Democrats to Play Ball

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Author: BY CARL HULSE - Publish Date: November 20, 2021 at 11:57PM The House’s approval of a sweeping social policy bill after weeks of fits and starts notched another win for the speaker in a career defined by them.

[TRENDING NEWS] Pelosi Predicts Thursday Vote on Biden’s Ambitious Social Policy Bill

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Author: BY JONATHAN WEISMAN - Publish Date: November 19, 2021 at 12:45AM A House vote, months in the making, could come as early as Thursday evening on a $1.85 trillion social policy and climate bill that would be the largest expansion of the safety net in 50 years.

[TRENDING NEWS] ‘Ghost Guns’: Firearm Kits Bought Online Fuel Epidemic of Violence

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Author: BY GLENN THRUSH - Publish Date: November 14, 2021 at 11:54PM They are untraceable and can be ordered with a click by children, gang members and felons. The Biden administration is trying to crack down, but law enforcement officials believe the problem may be here to stay.

[TRENDING NEWS] In Infrastructure Votes, 19 Members Broke With Their Party

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Author: BY LUKE BROADWATER AND ZACH MONTAGUE - Publish Date: November 7, 2021 at 02:04AM The defectors who crossed partisan lines in Congress include 13 Republicans who supported the bill and the six liberal members of “The Squad,” who opposed it.

[TRENDING NEWS] The Congressional Black Caucus Was Key to the Infrastructure Vote

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Author: BY JONATHAN WEISMAN AND CARL HULSE - Publish Date: November 6, 2021 at 11:45PM Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the chairwoman of the caucus, Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, to announce a key deal, understanding that the lawmaker had more influence at that point than she did.

[TRENDING NEWS] The Congressional Black Caucus Was Key to the Infrastructure Vote

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Author: BY JONATHAN WEISMAN AND CARL HULSE - Publish Date: November 6, 2021 at 11:45PM Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the chairwoman of the caucus, Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, to announce a key deal, understanding that the lawmaker had more influence at that point than she did.

[TRENDING NEWS] What to Watch in the Supreme Court Oral Arguments on the Texas Abortion Law

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Author: BY ADAM LIPTAK AND CHRIS CAMERON - Publish Date: November 1, 2021 at 02:22AM The New York Times will be streaming the oral arguments and providing live coverage of the proceedings when they begin at 10 a.m. Eastern.

[TRENDING NEWS] Biden Meets With Manchin and Schumer as Democrats Race to Finish Social Policy Bill

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Author: BY CATIE EDMONDSON AND EMILY COCHRANE - Publish Date: October 25, 2021 at 05:40AM Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she hoped to pass an infrastructure bill and have a deal in hand on the social policy bill by the end of the week.

[TRENDING NEWS] Last Chance to Save American Democracy

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Author: BY CHARLES M. BLOW - Publish Date: October 18, 2021 at 02:00AM This season of oppression is very likely the beginning of an era of oppression — unless Congress intervenes.

[TRENDING NEWS] With Biden Agenda in Limbo, Democrats Work to Sell an Unfinished Promise

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Author: BY EMILY COCHRANE - Publish Date: October 17, 2021 at 12:11AM As President Biden and his allies in Congress work to whittle down the size of their ambitious domestic plans, Democrats must sell a bill without knowing precisely what will be in it.

[TRENDING NEWS] Joe Manchin’s Choices on Family Policy

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Author: BY ROSS DOUTHAT - Publish Date: October 10, 2021 at 04:31AM How the conservative Democrat should be negotiating with his party.

[TRENDING NEWS] Progressives Stand Firm on Priorities as Infrastructure Debate Continues

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Author: BY LUKE BROADWATER AND CHRIS CAMERON - Publish Date: October 4, 2021 at 01:54AM Liberals rejected demands from moderate Democrats to shrink President Biden’s domestic policy agenda by more than half, though they said they were willing to compromise.

[TRENDING NEWS] Sherwood Boehlert, a G.O.P Moderate in the House, Dies at 84

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Author: BY SAM ROBERTS - Publish Date: September 25, 2021 at 12:09AM A champion of environmentalism who chided climate-change skeptics, he was among the last of the relatively progressive Rockefeller Republicans.

[TRENDING NEWS] Joe Manchin Got the Voting Bill He Wanted. Time to Pass It.

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Author: BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Publish Date: September 19, 2021 at 01:58AM Congress needs to protect voting rights. Now.