Tag / Bipartisan
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The Southern Border: A Humanitarian Crisis
In January of this year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection impounded 254 pounds of fentanyl—the largest seizure of the drug at any port of entry—at the Nogales Commercial Facility in Arizona. This amount of fentanyl is lethal enough to kill 57 million Americans. A few weeks later, President Trump declared a national emergency on the…
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Don’t Jump! Avoiding the Fiscal Cliff
The first task that awaits President Obama as he wraps up the quadrennial “year off” that we give to campaigning Presidents is to reduce the deficit and to confront the impending fiscal cliff, defined as the scheduled end of the Bush tax cuts coupled with a series of massive cuts to discretionary and defense spending…
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Double Tracking Rides the Climate Legislation Off the Rails
Barack Obama has called health reform his top domestic priority. And though providing health insurance and care to America’s 45 million uninsured is indeed a pressing moral issue, the yearlong process has tied up the activities of Congress’s upper houseThe House of Representatives has been hard at work, passing bill after critical bill, while the…
