Tag: Democratic Party

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. King was assassinated April 4, 1968, while in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers.

In re-election announcement, Bernie Sanders vows to be Trump’s ‘fiercest opponent in the Senate’

Anna Giaritelli · May 21, 2018 4:05 pm

"The other night, Mitch McConnell walked on to the floor of the Senate, and he knows the rules better than anybody. He did not have 60 votes. He barely had 50 votes," Bernie Sanders said.

Bernie Sanders: Democrats 'misreading where the American people are at'

Steven Nelson · May 20, 2018 2:50 pm

Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the March 13 special election in the 18th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, center, is pictured at his election night party in Canonsburg, Pa., early on Wednesday.

Pennsylvania’s new congressional map a huge gift to Democrats

David M. Drucker · May 20, 2018 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

How talk of impeachment will impact the midterms

Emily Jashinsky · May 18, 2018 10:00 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2014, file photo, Environmentalist Tom Steyer speaks to the Center for American Progressâs Second Annual Policy Conference in Washington. The billionaire climate activist Steyer, 57, announced Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, that he will not enter the race to succeed U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer in Calif., a move that reshaped the early contest that has attracted a pack of potential candidates.

Democrats’ dark money and the climate industrial complex

Rupert Darwall · May 18, 2018 12:00 am

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., waves as he leaves the stage after a town hall meeting with Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, examining economic justice 50 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther Kin Jr., Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Jackson, Miss.

Democrats test how far to the Left they can go

W. James Antle III · May 18, 2018 12:00 am

Several hundred Teamsters union members participate in a 2015 rally at the University of California Los Angeles. The Teamsters and other labor unions said Wednesday the Supreme Court's decision barring mandatory union fees at government agencies is likely to lead to long-lasting harm for workers at private companies.

Unions give $1.3 billion to Democrats, liberal groups since 2010

Sean Higgins · May 17, 2018 8:05 pm

A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Albuquerque, N.M.

Beltway Confidential

How Democrats could bungle the enthusiasm gap in 2018

Emily Jashinsky · May 17, 2018 5:50 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tells reporters that the work of special counsel Robert Mueller must continue as President Trump suggests firing him while investigating potential ties between Russia and Trump's 2016 campaign.

Nancy Pelosi defends intervention in California primaries to prevent Democratic lockout

Laura Barrón-López · May 17, 2018 3:58 pm

Sammi LeMaster, left, and Katherine Fuchs, right, carry the top of an alarm clock display that reads "Net Neutrality" down 12th Street SW to their truck after a protest at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, where the FCC is scheduled to meet and vote on net neutrality. The vote scheduled today, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, at the FCC could usher in big changes in how Americans use the internet, a radical departure from more than a decade of federal oversight.

Democrats notch rare Senate victory with vote to restore net neutrality

Susan Ferrechio · May 16, 2018 7:48 pm

This photo shows the Capitol Dome at the top of Capitol Hill in Washington.

Democrats seize control of Senate floor to force vote on net neutrality

Susan Ferrechio · May 16, 2018 4:38 pm

Vehicles make their way through flooded streets of Panorama City section of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Mitch McConnell: No need for nuclear option on confirmations yet

Susan Ferrechio · May 15, 2018 6:56 pm