Author: Alan Fram, Associated Press
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House OKs Dems’ immigration bill, despite veto threat
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WASHINGTON – Democrats shunned a White House veto threat and muscled legislation through the House Tuesday that would bestow a chance for citizenship on an estimated 2 million-plus migrants. The “American Dream and Promise Act” bill stands virtually no chance of enactment but lets Democrats showcase their efforts on one of their highest-profile priorities. The…
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For Democrats, more targets (including Colorado’s Gardner), but uphill slog to win Senate in 2020
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WASHINGTON – Teresa Tomlinson is a former mayor of a mid-sized city with no national profile. Yet she hopes she’ll be national Democrats’ top recruit to run for the Senate from Georgia next year – if one of the party’s rising stars, Stacey Abrams, takes a pass. “I feel comfortable I’ll be their Plan B,”…
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Here are the OTHER Democrats who voted against Pelosi (besides Jason Crow)
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WASHINGTON – What started as a rebellion with a potentially devastating effect on Nancy Pelosi’s winning drive to reclaim the House speaker’s post officially fizzled Thursday as just 15 Democrats refused to back her bid for the job. One of them was Colorado freshman lawmaker Jason Crow. Though suspense about the outcome vanished last month,…
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As number of GOP women in Congress dips, party seeks answers
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WASHINGTON – For congressional Republicans, this month’s elections ushered in the year of the woman – literally. West Virginia’s Carol Miller will be the only Republican woman entering the 435-member House as a newcomer in January. She’ll join what may be the chamber’s smallest group of female GOP lawmakers since the early 1990s – as…
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GOP, Dems focus on messages as summer recess, elections near
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WASHINGTON – U.S. House of Representatives Democrats have a plan for helping students afford the growing costs of college, in part by creating a partnership with states to provide two years of tuition-free community college. They also want to take $5 billion House Republicans have proposed for President Donald Trump’s long-promised wall with Mexico and…
