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H.R. 2452: To amend the Social Security Act to establish a Medicare for America health program to provide for comprehensive health coverage for all Americans.

Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT3]

This bill was referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and 4 other committees which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.

10 cosponsors are on those committees.

It’s painfully clear: today’s Congress wouldn’t have impeached Richard Nixon | Richard Wolffe

Too many Republicans no longer believe that the Constitution is more important than the party.

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The Republican-dominated Congress clearly thinks it’s no longer an impeachable offense to abuse power

There was a point during the Senate’s alternate grilling and chilling with Attorney General Bill Barr when you could hear the ghost of Richard Nixon crying.

Nixon took one final helicopter flight from the White House a generation too soon. He shuffled off this mortal coil a decade too early for redemption.

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Venezuela: Maduro thanks military and denounces ‘senseless coup-mongers and traitors’

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After a botched attempt to overthrow him, Maduro holds ‘march to reaffirm the absolute loyalty of the armed forces’

Nicolás Maduro has thanked Venezuela’s military for resisting what he branded a treacherous “imperial” plot to topple him this week by sparking a conflict that would justify foreign military intervention.

“Loyalty is a value that you either have or you don’t … I know you will not fail the homeland,” Maduro told troops during an early-morning parade in Caracas that was broadcast on state television.

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Thursday Open Thread | Kamala Harris stumps William Barr | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Harris was the only Democrat who seemed to stump Barr and throw him off his game, and by his game, I mean lying to protect the president. Barr literally moved his lying game to Matrix levels where he basically argued, rejected or appeared to misread blatant statements that could’ve been concluded by a normal nonpartisan person as obstruction of justice. But Mr. Flintstone is clinging firmly to President Trump’s fat-ass tie, so until all of these people are impeached, we will have to live with them being shamed.

Source: Thursday Open Thread | Kamala Harris stumps William Barr | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Joe Biden wants us to forget his past. We won’t | Adolph L Reed Jr and Cornel West

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As times have changed, Biden’s expressed retrospective misgivings about some of his earlier actions and stances. That’s not enough

After much huffing and puffing, Joe Biden has officially entered the race for 2020. In his announcement, he indicated his intention to hit the ground running immediately in early primary states, especially South Carolina.

We were struck by the emphasis on South Carolina. The state’s Democratic presidential primary has taken on iconic status at least since 2008, when candidate Barack Obama’s victory there, on the heels of a victory in the Iowa caucuses three weeks earlier, propelled him toward the nomination. In 2016, South Carolina stood out among the commentariat as the crucial test of a candidates’ ability to appeal to African American voters, and Hillary Clinton’s overwhelming win fueled the contention that she was a much stronger candidate than Senator Bernie Sanders among African Americans and other voters of color.

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