Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Judiciary Chairperson Jerry Nadler were right to say no one should be joyful about voting to impeach a President. This vote should not be a game of gotcha with the Republican President. It should be a matter of protecting the Constitution and following the oaths, Representatives took to safeguard the … Read more
In what is sure to be a 2020 election-year issue, House Democrats passed the Elijah Cummings Lower Drug Costs Act (also known as Lower Drug Costs Now Act) on December 12, 2019. This legislation, designed to give the federal government power to negotiate drug prices for Medicare and private insurance recipients, has already been consigned … Read more
Life moves on, and today there is an ongoing Congressional impeachment investigation of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump. No one is above the law, and we will await the decision of the Democratic U. S. Congress. President Trump was sworn in in January 2017 and this is the biggest challenge of his administration. We are … Read more
Once upon a time, Republicans were leaders in Environmental Protection. It was Republican Presidents (Grant and Harrison) that started designating lands as national forests and parks that fellow Republican President Theodore Roosevelt expanded and codified into law. It was a Republican President (Nixon) that signed the law that created the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean … Read more
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it all in her presentation to the American People, when announcing the formation of a formal impeachment inquiry into acts of Donald Trump, by quoting Benjamin Franklin comments to the people after the adoption of the United States Constitution in 1787 when they asked him “what do we have, a … Read more