PAY-GO
Medicare For All vs Pay-Go?
In the piece Saturday about the Congressional Progressive Caucus idea of Pay-Go legislation rather than having opposed it as a rule, I neglected to mention how hard it would have been to go back and fight for the negotiated package the CPC had decided to prioritize-- the Medicare-For-All debate agreement perhaps being the most important p
First Votes Of the 116th Congress
First came the vote for Speaker. Pelosi, the lesser evil got 220 votes and Kevin McCarthy, the greater evil not 192 votes. That leaves 22 members of Congress who voted for neither. A man who can't wait to prove he's the biggest moron in the new Congress, aggressively reactionary Blue Dog Jeff Van Drew (NJ), shouted out "NO," which doesn't mean anything in this instance.