In December, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would have reauthorized funding for a crucial Great Lakes environmental program. But the Senate never voted on the bill. Now, similar legislation is back in front of the House. The bill provides for another five years of funding – from 2016 through 2020 – for the […]
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Self-serving Senate’s failed gun control legislation
A couple of weeks ago, it seemed like the US Senate might actually respond to the will of the overwhelming majority of Americans when it comes to sensible gun control. It seemed as if the Senate, the more deliberative body of Congress, would pass a bill that would at the very least help to prevent […]
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ELECTIONS 2012: Gillibrand has earned second term
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Manhattan attorney Wendy Long are graduates of Dartmouth. They’re not far apart in age, and they’re both working mothers. But the similarities between Gillibrand and Long, her Republican challenger, end there. Gillibrand, a Democrat, was sworn into the US Senate in January 2009, filling the seat once held by Secretary of […]
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America, America…
We’ll work it all out, one of these days, and the country will seem like the one we say we want. Maybe we’ll even resurrect civil discourse. But not, I’m afraid, before we regress dangerously into the past, to a time when myth held sway over science, abortions were available only through back-alley practitioners, workers’ […]
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Next: absolute power
If I read the results right, last year’s presidential election was a close one. That means the country’s divided — or unclear — about what it wants. But the Bush administration acts as if the American people have embraced right-wing governance. And that’s exactly what we’re getting. Republicans are trying to grab total control […]
