Rupert Murdoch Must Tell Fox News Hosts To Stop Spreading Election Lies, Congressional Democrats Demand

Topline Democratic leaders in Congress sent a letter to Fox News executives including Rupert Murdoch Wednesday demanding they force Fox News hosts to stop spreading falsehoods about the 2020 election ...

Joe Manchin’s Angry About Biden Energy Policy, But Is Anyone Listening?

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 01: Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., listens as US President Joe Biden delivers his … [+] first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, at the Capitol o...

Fair Tax Combines Flawed Policy With Terrible Politics

The United States Capitol building getty Congressional Republicans shouldn’t surprised they’re under attack now that the Fair Tax, a proposal to replace the federal income tax with a 30% national sale...

Healthcare Priorities For The Next Congress

“At long last, Congress will likely turn its attention to things other than COVID-19,” writes Sally … [+] Pipes. “But Democrats have lost their legislative trifecta and will ha...

How Joe Manchin Enabled President Biden’s Assault On The Coal Industry

TOPSHOT – US President Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 into law during a … [+] ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 16, 202...

Manchin Releases Permitting Plan, But Will Democrats And Republicans Go Along?

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, at the Capitol in … [+] Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights re...

Permitting Reform Needed At Every Level Of Government

HOUSTON, TEXAS – JUNE 15: Power-lines are shown on June 15, 2021 in Houston, Texas. The Electric … [+] Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which controls approximately 90% of the power i...

Can Joe Manchin And Democrats Deliver On Permitting Reform?

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) looks to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after U.S. President … [+] Joe Biden signs The Inflation Reduction Act. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Im...

Here’s What Biden Might Do

Topline With President Joe Biden set to make a much anticipated decision on forgiving federal student loan debt in the coming days, here’s a timeline of what to expect, how much borrowers may get in r...

Manchin’s Permitting Side Deal Highlights The Energy Transition’s Central Conundrum

WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 16: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) looks to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer … [+] (D-NY) after U.S. President Joe Biden signs The Inflation Reduction Act in the State...

Biden Signs Sweeping Climate And Health Care Package, Marking Major Victory

Topline President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a climate, health and tax bill that he called “one of the most significant laws” in U.S. history, marking a major win for Biden’s domestic agenda after mo...

Fewer Americans Worried How Climate Change Affects Them, Poll Suggests

Topline The percentage of Americans who are highly concerned about how climate change affects their lives has slipped since 2019, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Resear...

Dems’ Reconciliation Package Obscures Obamacare’s Failures With Taxpayer Cash

WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 07: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gestures, walking out of the … [+] Senate Chamber, celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduct Act at the U.S. C...

Stock Buyback Tax Will Harm State & Local Pensions

US President Joe Biden speaks at the 29th AFL-CIO Quadrennial Constitutional Convention at the … [+] Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on June 14, 2022. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AF...

Manchin-Schumer Compromise Is A Watershed Moment For U.S. Energy

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 20: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) talks to reporters as he leaves the the Senate … [+] Democrats weekly policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on July 20, 2021 in Washington, ...

Parliamentarian MacDonough Will Approve The Schumer-Manchin Negotiated Drug Price Bill

I told you in July in Forbes.com that Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Mancian could make a deal. And, that it would go to the key Elizabeth MacDonough, Senate Parliamentarian. And, after...

Democrats Ready Carried-Interest Tax Hike After 15-Year Lobbying Campaign

Senate Democrats are poised to raise taxes on a key source of private-equity managers’ income, capping a 15-year quest to close what many lawmakers see as an egregious gap in the tax code. The tax inc...

Manchin Strikes Deal With Schumer On Energy And Healthcare Bill—Including Remnants Of Build Back Better

Topline Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced Wednesday he has reached a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) on a tax, energy and healthcare bill called the “Inflation...

Senate Majority Leader Schumer And Two Others Introduce New Cannabis Reform Bill

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks with reporters following a closed-door caucus … [+] lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewh...

Biden Under Pressure To Restrict Oil Exports For All The Wrong Reasons

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 16: President Joe Biden takes reporters questions on the south lawn of the … [+] White House on July 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. President Biden just returned from vi...

Three Transportation Surprises In 2022

Christmas and New Year celebrations are behind us, and kids have jettisoned their educational toys and are busy playing with their new video games. The rest of us are wondering when Omicron will be ov...