A step in the right direction. Here is a Politico: A group of 20 senators struck a bipartisan gun safety framework on Sunday, marking a significant breakthrough in Congress’ attempts to address recent back-to-back mass shootings. In a Sunday morning...
bipartisanship
Chris Coons defends Congress’s bipartisan infrastructure bill
Here is a taste of the Delaware senator’s op-ed at The Washington Post: The group led by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) has produced a package with $579 billion in new spending anchored by a down payment...
Michelle Cottle offers a “dictionary for these polarized times”
The premise of Cottle’s piece at The New York Times is that Democrats and Republicans no longer speak the same language. Take, for example, the phrase “fake news”: Pre-Trump, most folks thought of fake news as media sources that trafficked...
Biden chief of staff Ron Klain on the president’s new infrastructure bill: “The president was elected to do a job”
Politico’s Ryan Lizza interviewed Klain yesterday. Here is one of the takeaways: BIPARTISANSHIP IS NOT THE GOAL: On attracting Republican votes for the infrastructure bill, Klain’s rhetoric sounded similar to how the administration discussed the Covid relief bill:“ Let’s work together...