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Senate tossups: Maine was predicted; Iowa, Kansas and Alaska weren’t
October 28, 2020Trump and Trumpism have GOP Senate candidates on the chopping block.
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Without Senate control, a Biden agenda would be crippled
October 28, 2020A look at the Senate races that could make the critical difference for a country trying to rid itself of Trump and Trumpism.
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Democrats right to close the door on McConnell’s sham COVID rescue bills
October 22, 2020McConnell's goal was simply to give Republican Senators some flimsy evidence to claim they supported rescue measures that Democrats didn’t vote for.
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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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