Redistricting has given GOP incumbents a stronger grip on the vast majority of their seats, and Republican leaders aren’t willing to encourage promising female candidates to challenge incumbents.
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Congress employs gimmicks to provide highway funds
Congress is providing $11 billion to prevent a 28 percent reduction in federal highway and mass transit spending at the peak of the summer construction season.
Read More »Do-nothing Congress is your fault
If political polarization is driven by the public, how can Congress be so much more polarized than the people?
Read More »The ‘power trap’ is sinking Obama
Obama now faces the stark reality that little of what he hopes to accomplish in his remaining years in office will likely come to pass
Read More »Ellison: progressive in a conservative Congress
Minnesota's 5th District representative handily wins elections, but his views are frequently out of sync with the chattering class inside the Beltway where he is often tolerated as a curiosity.
Read More »Congress spins its wheels on highway funds
The Obama administration is warning states that cutbacks in federal aid will start as soon as the first week in August if lawmakers don’t act on the federal Highway Trust Fund.
Read More »Crook: Be an ideologue, not a partisan
When rivalry hardens into a sullen standoff — not a contest of ideas but a bloody-minded refusal to engage — you have a problem.
Read More »Pelosi remains wealthiest U.S. House leader
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is once again the wealthiest member of the leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, reporting between $42.4 million to $199.5 million in asset together with her husband.
Read More »Virginia is case study in electoral gridlock
Virginia voters just nominated two men who are almost certain to go to Washington and never agree on anything.
Read More »Schultz: The legacy of Jim Oberstar
Jim Oberstar’s accomplishments include facilitating hundreds of billions, perhaps more than $1 trillion, in transportation infrastructure funding over the last quarter century.
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