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May 2, 2013
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The air traffic controllers crisis, brought to us by the sequester cuts, offers both a warning of more like it to come and a pathway to a possible compromise. Congress solved the controllers crisis the easy way – by simply moving money from one account (the Airport Improvement Program) to pay the controllers.


August 4, 2015
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House Republicans forced adjournment a day early last week in flight from a Senate Republican transportation bill. To find the source of the stand-off, look no further than the Republican budget.

October 1, 2017
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In an effort to intimidate sanctuary cities, the Trump administration last week picked up undocumented immigrants who had various levels of criminal convictions across the country. That is ICE's job, and it has nothing to do with sanctuary cities. What Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions want is for sanctuary cities to detain and hand over to ICE people in state or local custody.


October 1, 2011
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October 1, 2011


March 3, 2015
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I am going to Selma, Alabama this weekend, but I hope I am not the only one of the nearly 100 Members of Congress attending for whom this commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Right Act is not a celebration.

March 16, 2015
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Although heads at the top have rolled, endemic problems remain untouched at the U.S. Secret Service. Two apparently drunk senior agents barreled into White House barricades, no less, on March 4. Double the trouble resulted when the supervisor allegedly let the agents go without a sobriety test or arrest, even though they had upset a bomb investigation.

August 15, 2012
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The United States did it again at the 2012 Olympics, coming away with more medals than any other nation. That didn't rock the world, but how we did it should have -- American women stole the show! Women's sports can rarely be found on prime-time broadcast television. Yet U.S. women left London with significantly more medals than our men, who dominate our airwaves. U.S.


January 4, 2016
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Is there a connection between the Paris and San Bernardino attacks on the one hand, and the increasing success of the US-Coalition strategy in the Middle East on the other?

July 3, 2012
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Roll Call recently asked a handful of lawmakers and others from Capitol Hill, including me, what the flag means to them. As we celebrate the Fourth of July, here is my answer:


May 20, 2013
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When the White House released the administration's emails on Benghazi last week, they snatched what was left of headlines for Benghazi. Republicans are still looking, though, and they have put out a call for whistleblowers. Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to tar anyone they can find. Democrats have asked that former U.S.