House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called on House Republicans to support the Senate's temporary spending bill as a way to avert a government shutdown Saturday.
Accusations that New Mexico's Democratic-led Legislature unfairly diluted the vote of a politically conservative oil-producing region with its redistricting map went to trial on Wednesday.
The public is flying more than ever, and the large, rapid increase is creating some problems. Airport infrastructure isn’t up to snuff in many cities (some Miami passengers will be walking a mile to their gate thanks to a downed airport train), staffing problems plague airlines and airports, and also, crowded planes and new fliers are leading to clashes over norms and etiquette.
In a rather gimmicky final question in the second Republican presidential primary debate, moderator Dana Perino asked candidates to name one other person on the stage who “should be voted off the island.” They mostly declined to answer, but there is an important point at the heart of the question.
These days, Democrats and Republicans seem to hate each other so much that when not attempting to incarcerate each others' principal political leaders, they can't come to a simple agreement to fund the government that employs them. What unites Washington is almost always more fascinating than what divides it, and thus, it is perhaps the most significant accomplishment of his entire career that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) singlehandedly cajoled the Senate into passing a unanimous formal dress code written by the two villains of their own parties, Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Joe Manchin (D-WV).