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Patty Murray
paid leave
Sept. 24, 2021
This Is the Year We Pass Paid Leave It’s a policy whose time has finally come.
By Bryce Covert
lamar alexander
Dec. 19, 2018
Will Lame Duck Lamar Make Trouble for Trump and His Party? While Lamar Alexander represents a lost tradition of Republican bipartisanship and moderation, he’s probably too genteel and loyal to act as a gadfly.
By Ed Kilgore
betsy devos
Aug. 14, 2018
Among Other Things, Federal Subsidies to Defraud Students Are Expensive Betsy DeVos thinks for-profit colleges as well as K-12 private schools deserve federal subsidies without accountability.
By Ed Kilgore
Alexander and Murray’s Bipartisan Obamacare Alliance Disintegrates When Obamacare stabilization measures reached their moment of truth, bipartisanship ceased and the GOP agenda took over.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Deal to Repeal Obamacare Mandate Now for ‘Stabilization’ Later a Bad Idea GOP is wrongly suggesting that damage caused by repealing the Obamacare mandate would be offset by subsequent enactment of the Alexander-Murray bill.
By Ed Kilgore
Why You Might Be Seeing a Bipartisan Health-Care Bill in December Republicans need cover to do the right thing on stabilizing Obamacare markets, and a fat, must-pass spending bill could be the ticket.
By Ed Kilgore
Ryan Rejects Bipartisan Health Care ‘Fix’ and Now Trump Does, Too Before the Alexander-Murray proposal was even finalized, the House Speaker deep-sixed it. And Trump, who was supportive yesterday, changed his mind.
By Ed Kilgore
Republicans Appear Uninterested in Deal to Fix Trump’s Obamacare Mess Though Trump said he backs the deal reached by senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray, it got a cool response from Republican lawmakers.
By Margaret Hartmann
Trump Urges Congress to Fix the Obamacare Problem He’s Caused Having substantively and politically sabotaged Obamacare, Trump is now offering dubious support for bipartisan efforts to stabilize insurance markets.
By Ed Kilgore
Obamacare Premiums Set to Skyrocket in 2018 After the serial failure of GOP Obamacare-repeal bills, Republicans are now letting insurance rates go up instead of cooperating on a quick fix.
By Ed Kilgore
Bipartisan Health Talks Are Dead — for Now Things were looking up for bipartisan health-care talks, until the GOP decided to try once more to repeal Obamacare. But someday reason may prevail.
By Ed Kilgore
The GOP Must Make Obamacare Sabotage-Proof by Month’s End Or else health-insurance premiums will (almost certainly) rise by double digits.
By Eric Levitz
Parliamentarian Deals Trumpcare a Final Death Blow Now, a bipartisan health-care bill may rise from its ashes — if Senate Republicans can convince Trump to pursue solutions over sabotage.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
Dec. 5, 2013
By Jonathan Chait
budget wars
Mar. 23, 2013
Senate Manages to Pass a Budget For the first time in four years.
By Andre Tartar
Female Senators Sick of Talking About Abortion Always brought up by men, Senator Barbara Boxer says.
By Kat Stoeffel
super friends
Aug. 9, 2011
By Dan Amira
early and often
Nov. 4, 2010
By Avi Zenilman
early and often
Nov. 3, 2010
By Dan Amira
early and often
Oct. 21, 2010
By Avi Zenilman