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To rebuild our nation's infrastructure, add a new per-gallon 'user fee' on gasoline

Once we reach solvency to tackle our infrastructure challenges, we could effectively end the user fee program or even sunset it...  Read more

Washington braces for polarizing Nunes memo

The classified Republican memo that has become a lightning rod in the battle between Republicans and Democrats over federal surveillance tactics is poised to be released as early as Friday...  Read more

Proper presidential control, and distance, from the FBI

Federal law enforcement officials are not supposed to be allies of the president. Equally, they are not supposed to be his antagonists...  Read more

Trump's immigration deal is, well, the real deal

More than 70 percent of Americans who watched President Trump's State of the Union speech Tuesday said they favored the basic immigration proposals that he laid out...  Read more

Schiff Calls on Nunes to Withdraw FISA Memo Sent to White House

The California Democrat claims the memo, which the House Intelligence Committee voted Monday to release, was altered before it was sent along for review...  Read more

Can Republicans stop California's tax on space travel?

The merchant adventurers of space will be more likely to start and grow their businesses in states less intent on shaking them down...  Read more

Trump, Democrats on an immigration collision course

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., managed to get Republican Senate leaders to agree to vote on the controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program as Congress prepares for its next spending measure in February...  Read more

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  • 02/01/2018 12:00 AM

White House grapples with releasing explosive memo amid Justice Department, Democratic opposition

White House attorneys Wednesday were reviewing a memo prepared by House Republicans said to detail surveillance abuses committed under the Obama administration...  Read more

Three-quarters of Americans approved of Trump's State of the Union

Viewers also had favorable reactions to Trump's talking points on infrastructure, immigration, and national security, with a majority believing the policies mentioned would "help" them...  Read more

In 10,000 Words to Congress, Trump Has Not Said 'Medicare' or 'Social Security' Once

His deviation from Paul Ryan and congressional conservatives continues...  Read more

Women's March not radical enough for UC Berkeley students

A University of California, Berkeley, student has said she sat the Women's March out because it wasn't radical enough...  Read more

Taxpayer money being wasted on shocking animal experimentation

Animals don't have a voice nor representation in Congress, yet they have some friends in Reps. Dave Brat and Dina Titus, to make sure that tax money is not squandered on tests with limited utility and maximum pain to defenseless animals...  Read more

Republican lawmakers take Trump's Obamacare repeal snub in stride

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump did not say he had any intention of eliminating any other part of Obamacare, after the law's individual mandate was repealed last year...  Read more

Ronald Reagan and the Tet Offensive

Exactly fifty years ago, on Jan. 30, 1968, Americans turned on their evening television news shows and received their second shock of the week...  Read more

House Intel Committee Votes to Release Secret GOP Memo

The vote was on party lines, and Democrats charge the document is meant to undermine the Mueller investigation...  Read more

The opioid crisis has moved beyond prescription pills to deadly fentanyl

As of August 2016, fentanyl and its analogs (drugs that mimic chemical structure and therefore effect) are consistently killing more people than either heroin or prescription opioids...  Read more

Infrastructure package could mean a win-win for a divided nation

It's time to start preparing for our infrastructure challenge. A good place to start would be to improve access to the vast amounts of minerals and metals we'll need for the task ahead...  Read more

Trump, GOP wage fraught campaign to investigate the Russia investigators

Devin Nunes' staff has written a memo that outlines what Republicans characterize as proof that the FBI under former Director James Comey used opposition research — which the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funded — as justification to obtain a surveillance warrant for a former Trump campaign adviser...  Read more