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If that’s your standard-bearer, then what are your standards?
As 2023 draws to a close, The Fulcrum has invited leaders of democracy reform organizations to share their hopes and plans for the coming year. This is the first in the series. Weichlein is the CEO of FMC: The Former Members of Congress Association. In a 2022, which offers career advice and an online resume builder, over 1,000 Americans ranked “politicians” as the least respected profession when given 20 job titles to choose from.
COLUMN: No reason for the inaction that follows mass shootings
Within hours of the news breaking of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the political and media voices that benefit from keeping us divided were already out in full force. Regardless of political persuasion, whether we are gun owners, who we voted for in the last presidential election, and what our ZIP code is, we all agree America is in a gut-wrenching pattern of school shootings, followed by outrage, followed by inaction.
Mass shooting. Inaction. Repeat.
As we are dealing yet again with the horror of our children falling victim to a mass murderer, let’s keep our focus squarely on what unites us, because within hours of the news breaking, the political and media voices that benefit from keeping us divided were already out in full force.
COLUMN: Threats could spell death of public service
U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis joined a number of his fellow Republicans on June 14, 2017, for an early morning baseball practice on a field in Alexandria, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. They were getting ready for an annual charity game that Republicans and Democrats have played for over 100 years, and the recurring time and place of their practice was not something anyone thought needed to be kept secret. kAm%96 7:CDE 8F?D9@ED C2?8 @FE 23@FE b_ >:?FE6D :?E@ AC24E:46[ 2?5 :7 :E 925 ?@E 366?
Commentary: Threats, vilification and screaming parents: The death of public service
Rep. Rodney Davis joined a number of his fellow Republicans on June 14, 2017, for an early morning baseball practice on a field in Alexandria, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. They were getting ready for an annual charity game that Republicans and Democrats have played for over 100 years, and the recurring time and place of their practice was not something anyone thought needed to be kept secret.
We must tone down our disagreements
Rep. Rodney Davis joined a number of his fellow Republicans on June 14, 2017, for an early morning baseball practice on a field in Alexandria, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. They were getting ready for an annual charity game that Republicans and Democrats have played for over 100 years, and the recurring time and place of their practice was not something anyone thought needed to be kept secret.
Pete Weichlein: The filibuster is unbearable, odious and infuriating. We better not get rid of it
Pete Weichlein: The filibuster is unbearable, odious and infuriating. We better not get rid of it PETE WEICHLEIN Tribune Content President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats have a special gift in mind for what would have been the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 93rd birthday: declaring hyperpartisanship an insurmountable reality and capitulating accordingly.
Pete Weichlein: Kill the filibuster, kill the Senate
Pete Weichlein The Fulcrum President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are ready to declare hyperpartisanship an insurmountable reality and capitulating accordingly. Specifically, in order to advance voting rights legislation, Democrats are on the brink of eliminating the Senate filibuster, a 60-vote threshold for moving legislation forward, to make it possible to pass bills with a simple majority of 51 votes.
Shawn Tran: College students aren’t getting the education they paid for. Where’s the reimbursement?
University of California—Berkeley Christopher Reynolds/Los Angeles Times/TNS When you buy a product that doesn’t match its description, what do you do? The logical thing to do is return the product and get your money back. But some things are hard to get a refund for. College tuition is one of them. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools have been switching back and forth between in-person learning and remote learning.
Cal Thomas: Republicans are counting the months until November
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about voting rights at Clark Atlanta University on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. Ben Gray/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS How do you know when a politician is lying? Answer: when his lips are moving. It's an old joke, but it fits the Biden administration. The president went to Atlanta last week where he made claims that would have sent a lie detector off the chart.
Pete Weichlein: Kill the filibuster, kill the Senate Original
1 of 2 Erica Bland-Durosinmi, executive vice president of SEIU Healthcare IL IN, joins others as they rally for a voting rights on Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali Day, Jan. 17, 2022. Pete Weichlein The Fulcrum President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are ready to declare hyperpartisanship an insurmountable reality and capitulating accordingly.
The filibuster is unbearable, odious and infuriating. We better not get rid of it
President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats have a special gift in mind for what would have been the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 93rd birthday: declaring hyperpartisanship an insurmountable reality and capitulating accordingly. Specifically, in order to advance voting rights legislation, Democrats are on the brink of eliminating the Senate filibuster, a 60-vote threshold for moving legislation forward, to make it possible to pass bills with a simple majority of 51 votes.
Pete Weichlein: The filibuster is unbearable, odious and infuriating. We better not get rid of it. Original
President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats have a special gift in mind for what would have been the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 93rd birthday: declaring hyperpartisanship an insurmountable reality and capitulating accordingly. Specifically, in order to advance voting rights legislation, Democrats are on the brink of eliminating the Senate filibuster, a 60-vote threshold for moving legislation forward, to make it possible to pass bills with a simple majority of 51 votes.
The filibuster is unbearable, odious and infuriating. We better not get rid of it.
Senate Minority Leader is correct when he says the filibuster serves the framer's design of slowing the legislative process. Weichlein is the CEO of FMC: The Former Members of Congress Association. President Biden and Senate Democrats have a special gift in mind for what would have been the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 93rd birthday: declaring hyperpartisanship an insurmountable reality and capitulating accordingly.
Have you no sense of decency, America?
Just in time for Veterans Day, Rep. Paul Gosar discovered his inner warrior. Armed with an anime sword and less than impressive software, the Arizona Republican released to the world a 90-second window into his soul: his fantasy of being a flying far-right superhero who murders woke libs such as his colleague, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and tries to do the same to President Joe Biden.
We need more decency in America, not just Congress
Rep. Paul Gosar, seen riding the Capitol subway, is a reflection of the system in which he operates, writes Weichlein. Weichlein is the CEO of FMC: The Former Members of Congress Association. Just in time for Veterans Day, Rep. Paul Gosar discovered his inner warrior.
Protecting our democratic institutions starts with the way we vote
The 2020 election was the most secure in American history and there’s no evidence that any voting system deleted, lost or changed any votes. There, I said it! Actually, I didn’t say it, but rather Chris Krebs, who served as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during the Trump administration, said it and was fired shortly thereafter by the then president. kAm$:?46 =2DE }@G6>36C[ E96C6 92G6 366? 2=>@DE D:I 5@K6?
Protecting our democratic institutions starts with the way we vote
The 2020 election was the most secure in American history and there's no evidence that any voting system deleted, lost or changed any votes. There, I said it! Actually, I didn't say it, but rather Chris Krebs, who served as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during the Trump administration, said it and was fired shortly thereafter by the then president.
OPINION: Protecting our democratic institutions starts with the way we vote
J. Countess/Getty Images Weichlein is the CEO of FMC: The Former Members of Congress Association. The 2020 election was the most secure in American history and there's no evidence that any voting system deleted, lost or changed any votes. There, I said it! Actually, I didn't say it, but rather Chris Krebs, who served as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during the Trump administration, said it and was fired shortly thereafter by the then president.
OPINION: We came together on 9/11. Is that possible now?
Manuel DaMota embraces his mother, Barbara, near the Ground Zero memorial on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Today, The Fulcrum introduces a new regular monthly columnist. Pete Weichlein is the CEO of FMC: The Former Members of Congress Association. In his monthly column, Weichlein will share his thoughts and perspective on politics and civics in his daily work. In his first column, Pete reflects on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
In defense of public service: Washington is so much more than a swamp
When House Majority Whip Steven Scalise (R-La.) returned to the House Chamber almost four months after being shot simply because he belongs to the Republican Party, his colleagues from both sides of the aisle rose to cheer his homecoming. That, right there, was the Congressional Family coming together, putting the commonality of public service above party labels.
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