Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Sunday, September 7, 2025

Constitutional test looms at Supreme Court

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  Gordon L. Weil On Inauguration Day, President Trump issued a torrent of executive orders, aimed at reshaping the federal government; many ...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Politics of trying to kill pubici media

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  Gordon L. Weil The Trump rescissions bill killed federal funding for NPR, PBS and local stations.  The $1.1 billion cut is small for the f...
Friday, July 4, 2025

U.S. under one-person rule

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  Gordon L. Weil On July 4, 1776, a group of representatives of a new country they called the United States declared that all men (not onl...
Friday, June 20, 2025

"Big, bearuful bill' in trouble

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Gordon L. Weil It’s all about the Laffer Curve . President Trump’s “One, big, beautiful bill” to cut taxes and spending has run right in...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

What the Democrats didn't do

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  Gordon L. Weil Here’s some news you may have missed this past week. Though sure to be outvoted by House Republicans, Democrats issued ...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Trump's DOGE could face Congress protecting its turf

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  Gordon L. Weil There’s a new government department.   Except that it’s not part of the government and it’s not a department.   It’s th...
Friday, December 6, 2024

Bigger U.S. House could renew fading Congress

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  Gordon L. Weil Jared Golden is trying to close a circle that’s as old as the Constitution. As one of Maine’s U.S. House members, he wa...
Friday, November 22, 2024

Congress should hold Trump accountable

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  Gordon L. Weil “The Man Who Would Be King.” That’s the title of a short story (made into a movie) by Rudyard Kipling, a famous British...
Friday, July 19, 2024

As Trump advances, could a GOP Congress follow?

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Gordon L. Weil Conventional wisdom is dead. No pundit’s opinion on the election could foresee the assassination attempt on Donald Trump ...