Americans filed their taxes across the United States on Wednesday. In Washington, the day was a prime opportunity to showcase tax cuts. House Republicans marked the day with a vote to repeal a tax that most Americans will never face. The estate tax is a tax on the estate of deceased taxpayers. An estate would…
Secretary of State John Kerry blasted Senate Republicans on Wednesday during testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kerry, whose appearance before the committee was related to a use of military force authorization being debated in Congress, was asked about a letter that forty-seven Senate Republicans sent to Iran. The letter warned Iran’s leaders that…
President Obama offered his reaction to the 2014 midterm election results that saw his party lose control of the United States Senate and governorships across the country. The president struck a conciliatory tone, recognizing the GOP’s victories, but sounding less somber than after the party’s 2010 “shellacking” where Democrats lost their House majority, only to…
Republicans are heavily favored to make strong gains in the US Senate today with a better than even probability of flipping control of the body, which has been in Democratic hands since January 2007. While partisans may interpret this as a resounding endorsement of their policies on a national level, a closer look at the…
