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Wednesday, September 09, 2015

How Congress deals with this to-do list will affect everything

As Congress returns today from a lengthy summer recess, it will be facing a raft of unfinished business and a much different political landscape than the one it left behind in late July.

In the lawmakers’ absence, multi-billionaire Donald Trump has emerged as the undisputed Republican presidential frontrunner with an anti- illegal immigrant, anti-Establishment, pro-war and pro-tax increase agenda that will both energize and further polarize the political debate on Capitol Hill.

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton meanwhile is now trailing Sen. Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire. With a sizable majority of voters doubting her honesty, a House special committee hearing next month into the former secretary of state’s handling of the Benghazi controversy and her use of a personal email server for official business will take on added political significance as she tries to regain some momentum.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tax increase? Haven't heard that one yet.

Anonymous said...

Wether your dem or rep you should vote against incumbent. That's how you win and make term limits. Think for yourself for once.

Anonymous said...

There's much written about the clerk who "refuses to do her job", and calls for her removal have been aired. Well, what about our congressionals who have completed NOTHING in this last session before vacations in July. Yeah, they all needed it...