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The Coronavirus Stimulus Package Will Be Toxic to Incumbents | Independent Voter Newspassed by Congress. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, addressing the 2008 Financial Crisis and the ensuing Great Recession, was "only" $787 billion at the time of passage. (That number later crept up-- as Washington outlays are wont to do…
Stanley Brand | Independent Voter NewsStanley Brand. Brand, director of Penn State Law School's Washington internship program, was general counsel of the U.S. House from 1976 to 1983 and a public corruption atty.…
Sara Wilson, Medill School | Independent Voter NewsSara Wilson, Medill School. Sara is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. with a MSJ from Northwestern University, where she focused on politics and policy reporting.…
Jeff Plungis | Independent Voter NewsJeff Plungis. Jeff Plungis is a veteran Washington journalist who has covered the auto industry, transportation, national security, finance and politics for national publications.…
INCREDIBLE: Third Party, Independent Representation Up 40% Since 2014 | Independent Voter Newselusive in Washington. All 435 members in the U.S. House of Representatives are Democrats or Republicans. Across the Capitol, there are two of 100 senators with “(I)” after their names -- Sen. Bernie Sanders. of Vermont and Sen. Angus King. of Maine. But wait…
The Independent State of the Union | Independent Voter Newsevolved into the modern event of partisan pageantry we for some reason watch every year. "President Franklin D. Roosevelt giving his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 7, 1943." | Source: Wikipedia. Same Song and Dance Every…
Money and Politics: Why Small Businesses Should Fight to Unrig the System | Independent Voter Newsaccording to the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. Yet these companies are put on the sidelines in a system that caters to the very small percentage of wealthy businesses, individuals, unions, and special interests who participate in the Washington…
Independents and Black Voters in Georgia Win the US Senate for the Democrats | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Campaigns. Independents and Black Voters in Georgia Win the US Senate for the Democrats. January 7, 2021. It was quite an afternoon. While Washington DC police, accompanied by federal agents, were finally clearing the Capitol Building of renegade…
Beware The Harvest: What Tops the 6 Downsides of an All-Mail Election | Independent Voter Newsby mail: Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington. It took them many years to develop their systems, safeguards and capacity to make such all-mail-in elections possible. There are a few salient problems with this national push to move ballots to the…
Ranked Choice Voting Is Under Attack | Independent Voter Newsopinion columnist at the Washington Times wrote a piece entitled, “. Ranked-choice voting should be slotted dead last as election reform. .” The piece starts off with some good old-fashioned partisan fear-mongering: “Progressives are floating yet another…