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    How and When Should States Reopen? This Congressman Has Answers
    Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., a member of President Donald Trump’s congressional task force on economic recovery, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the economy’s devastation by the coronavirus and how America should get back to work. The House Freedom Caucus chairman talks about how the nation should balance the contagiousness of COVID-19 with the…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    3 Reasons Why States Shouldn’t Get a Congressional Bailout
    Illinois State Senate President Don Harmon sent a letter April 14 on behalf of the Illinois Senate Democratic Caucus to members of Congress requesting $40 billion in federal funds for the beleaguered state. Although the letter comes under the guise of unprecedented COVID-19 disruptions, the purposes for which Illinois and other states seek additional federal…
    Rachel Greszler
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    Can the President Adjourn Congress and Make Appointments Without Senate Confirmation?
    President Donald Trump expressed frustration Wednesday that the Senate has not confirmed his pending nominees to various posts. “The current practice of leaving town while conducting phony pro forma sessions is a dereliction of duty that the American people cannot afford during this crisis,” Trump told reporters. The president warned that if the House does…
    Hans von Spakovsky | John G. Malcolm
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    Senators’ Images as Insider Traders Erode Public Trust in Rule of Law
    Four senators came under fire last week for making financially advantageous stock trades after receiving information about the then-approaching coronavirus pandemic.  The optics of that are terrible. While the country faced an unprecedented situation, those senators executed trades for their own gain while simultaneously seeking to quiet public fears.  Reactions from across the political spectrum…
    Zack Smith
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    How Congress Can Help Retirees Amid Market Turmoil
    Stocks have plunged in recent weeks. The S&P 500 is down about 27% from its high on Feb. 19 but still hasn’t dropped to the levels of late May 2019. This means anyone with a retirement account or other investments likely has taken a significant hit. Assuming they don’t need that money in the short…
    Rachel Greszler | Adam Michel
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    Congress Shouldn’t Put This Conservation Spending on Autopilot
    Buyers (aka taxpayers), beware: The Land and Water Conservation Fund is not what you might think. Some on Capitol Hill have floated the idea of fully funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund permanently. In Washington budget-speak, that means creating a new autopilot mandatory program.  Congress created the conservation fund in 1964 to “assist in…
    Katie Tubb
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    Booker T. Washington: A Legacy of Enterprise and Education
    Author and educator Booker T. Washington played a critical role in the promotion of education and free market enterprise among black Americans at the turn of the century. Alabama businessman and political consultant Richard Finley joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss what the legacy of Washington, who died in 1915, means to him and…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Why Impeachment Failed
    It’s comforting, no doubt, to believe that Donald Trump has survived the impeachment trial because he possesses a tighter hold on his party than did Barack Obama or George W. Bush or any other contemporary president. In truth, Trump, often because of his own actions, has engendered less loyalty than the average president. It’s difficult…
    David Harsanyi
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    How History Will Judge the Trump Impeachment
    The Senate has voted against impeaching President Donald Trump, defeating two articles of impeachment by votes of 52-48 and 53-47. Trump joins two former presidents, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, in being impeached by the House of Representatives before being acquitted by the Senate. The House failed to produce credible evidence that the president committed any “high…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    His Foes ‘Vicious’ and ‘Genius’ in Impeachment, Trump Tells Supporters
    President Donald Trump, throwing what he called a “celebration” Thursday at the White House, said the nation could have accomplished more by now if not for the time put  into his impeachment and legal defense.  “Think what we could have done if the same energy was put into infrastructure, prescription drug prices. Think of what…
    Fred Lucas
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    8 Highlights of Closing Arguments Before the Final Impeachment Vote
    House Democrats’ impeachment managers and President Donald Trump’s lawyers made their closing cases Monday to the Senate, two days before the 100 lawmakers are scheduled to vote on whether to remove the president from office.  The day included a proposal from one Senate Democrat to censure the president rather than remove him, and the lead…
    Fred Lucas
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    4 Big Moments Before the Senate’s Vote Against New Impeachment Witnesses
    In the lead-up to the Senate vote not to call witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, another John Bolton bombshell dropped, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska rendered the debate moot, and the Senate chaplain almost stole the show.  About 5:40 p.m. Friday, the Senate voted 51-49 against calling witnesses, meaning the inevitable…
    Fred Lucas
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    Amid Impeachment, Pompeo Visit to Ukraine Underscores US Support
    KYIV, Ukraine—In a visit here, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday underscored America’s commitment to help Ukraine defend itself from Russian aggression, downplaying concerns that impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump might fray Kyiv’s relations with Washington. “The United States sees that the Ukrainian struggle for freedom, democracy, and prosperity is a valiant one….
    Nolan Peterson
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    7 Questions and Answers From Day 9 of Trump Impeachment Trial
    Chief Justice John Roberts declined to read a sensitive question from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., in the Senate impeachment trial Thursday, as other senators asked about the withholding of U.S. aid to Ukraine and about Joe Biden and his son’s employment by a Ukrainian energy company.  The ninth day of the impeachment trial was the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Problematic Women: Trump, the Impeachment Trial, and Teen Vogue (Again)
    Are you having trouble following everything going on with the Senate impeachment trial? You’re not alone. Elizabeth Slattery, legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, joins the show to break down the proceedings at a 101 level. We also discuss President Trump’s speech at the March for Life and the Trump administration’s other big pro-life announcements….
    Lauren Evans | Virginia Allen
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    6 Scenes From Day 8 of Trump Impeachment Trial
    Wednesday was question-and-answer day in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, and it included a thought exercise in which Barack Obama asks Russia to investigate election rival Mitt Romney.  Senators acting as jurors, and in some way judges, submitted questions in writing to Chief Justice John Roberts. He then read them out loud…
    Fred Lucas
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    How the House’s Handling of Impeachment Hurts the American People
    Whether the American people yet realize it or not, the House’s handling of the impeachment of President Donald Trump has inflicted serious damage on America’s constitutional system of government and threatened the very safety of our nation. The partisan nature of this particular impeachment will end up weakening not just Trump, but the office of…
    Kay C. James
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    ‘Danger, Danger, Danger’: 4 Highlights From Final Day of Defense Arguments in Impeachment Trial
    President Donald Trump’s lawyers briskly completed final arguments against removing their client from office Tuesday, taking a fraction of the 24 hours allotted to them in the Senate impeachment trial. Their wrapup Tuesday after less than two hours—following two hours Saturday and eight hours Monday—was a stark contrast from House Democrats’ impeachment managers.  The Democrats…
    Fred Lucas
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    Podcast: Glenn Beck Discusses Impeachment, the Future, and Our Founding Principles
    Today we have an exclusive interview with Blaze Media’s Glenn Beck on a range of topics, including our national debt, the fate of America’s Republic experiment, and traditional values. Plus: We talk about basketball great Kobe Bryant’s legacy. We also cover these stories: Ken Starr, a member of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team, told…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Under Bolton Shadow, 6 Big Moments From Day 6 of Trump Impeachment Trial
    President Donald Trump’s lawyers hit the Senate floor Monday for the second day of defense arguments in his impeachment trial, amid what Democrats called a bombshell from a forthcoming book by the president’s former national security adviser, John Bolton.  The Bolton book wasn’t a direct topic during the arguments. But the president’s lawyers addressed the…
    Fred Lucas
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