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Sides agree on $2 trillion coronavirus aid bill
March 25, 2020While the measure helps workers, corporate lobbies seized the chance to insert some multibillion-dollar goodies for themselves, too, feeding off U.S. taxpayers for $20 billion more for agribusiness and a reported $17 billion for Boeing, for...
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Coronavirus bill: What’s there and what progressives say should be there
March 23, 2020With the first votes looming, here are key provisions that we know, so far, are in the legislation, or not.
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McConnell impeachment rules a travesty against the Constitution and the people
January 21, 2020Trump-backed rules aim to block testimony, documents, witnesses and to keep the press and the public from seeing and hearing the truth
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GOP senators split to block border “emergency”; Trump responds with veto
March 15, 2019It's the second time in a week that enough Republicans have defied Trump and joined Democrats to override his demands.
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McConnell’s medieval moves to continue the shutdown
January 15, 2019The leader of the U.S. Senate, Republican Mitch McConnell has resolutely refused to consider any bill that Trump does not approve of.
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