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Stephen Spaulding retweeted
Will the Real the Senator Stand Up trivia: When Scott Colom becomes the next Senator for Mississippi (and he will) there will be FOUR identical twins in the Senate Democratic Caucus — Patty Murray, Brian Schatz, Mark Kelly and yes, Scott Colom!
Stephen Spaulding retweeted
Overall voter turnout in the midterms was high, but it wasn’t the same in all places and among all groups. A closer look reveals notable increases and decreases from past elections.
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Actually HR 1 in the 116th Congress was an anticorruption bill, and a voting bill, and an ethics bills called the For the People Act all rolled into one. And all of that has a lot to do with the economy and the cost of corruption.
Each Congress, H.R. 1-10 are reserved for the majority’s top bills and H.R. 11-20 are reserved for the minority.
Notable: Almost all of the top Dem bills in recent Congresses have been on social issues, not economic. Likely to change next Congress. wakeuptopolitics.com/p/what-…
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Stephen Spaulding retweeted
Lawmakers must now build an agenda of reform that responds to voters’ concerns about corruption, the Supreme Court, abuses of executive power, and more.
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Stephen Spaulding retweeted
The Brennan Center will continue working to strengthen democracy, protect the right to vote, and defend elections alongside our allies. Read: nyti.ms/48iBQtn
Last night's historic rebuke of the party in power registers as a 10.0 on the Richter scale.
It was an emphatic message from voters: they want real checks and balances, especially on the president.
But also the Supreme Court. 1/
Whether it’s fighting corruption or reforming our democracy, the to-do list coming out of yesterday’s returns must include term limits for the Supreme Court.
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We propose 18-year term limits for the nation’s highest court. To learn more about how it would work, please see our proposal. brennancenter.org/our-work/p…
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Read FEC Chair @ShanaMBroussard's piece in @Slate about the eye-popping amount that a single donor can contribute to a political party to benefit just one single federal candidate: $3,126,400.
slate.com/news-and-politics/…
