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David Tennent was really looking forward to starting his new job as a digital director for Rep. Guy Reschenthaler of Pennsylvania. Besides the chief of staff, Tennent hadn’t met anyone in the office yet, and after a year of setting up awkward coffee meetings over LinkedIn as an entry-level staffer for another Republican, Tennent was…Continue Reading

A hungry-for-knowledge Derek Kilmer was summoned to the boss’ office back in the summer of 1993. It was his last day interning for Rep. Al Swift, an “old-school” Democrat.“This is something people in this town would kill to learn, and I’m going to teach it to you,” Kilmer recalls his boss saying, as he pulled…Continue Reading

Posted February 23, 2022 at 5:45amAs observers speculate about what a unionized congressional staff might look like — Will any Republican offices organize? How will collective bargaining work? — the sponsor of the House resolution to authorize organization efforts is urging everyone to take one step at a time.“We’ve got to keep our eyes on…Continue Reading

A major lobbying arm for the chemical industry boosted its spending by nearly 92 percent at the end of last year, compared with the same period in 2020, as Congress considered and passed legislation raising taxes on 42 chemicals. In the last quarter of 2021, the American Chemistry Council, or ACC, spent $7.32 million lobbying Congress…Continue Reading

President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced he will blacklist two Russian banks and impose further sanctions on the purchase of Russian sovereign debt as punishment for Moscow deploying additional military troops to a pair of breakaway regions in Ukraine it declared independent.The move by the president came after an announcement by the German government that…Continue Reading

No one seems happy about politics these days. A new survey conducted by the American Enterprise Institute’s Survey Center on American Life, which I lead, found that less than half the American public felt optimistic about the country’s future. But there is a fairly stark divide among Americans on this question, with white Americans expressing…Continue Reading

In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses the best way to poll how satisfied Americans are with both their own lives and the direction of the country. They also talk about what states are doing with their billions in excess pandemic relief funding and look into opinion polling on the U.S.’s…Continue Reading

At the height of the pandemic, state officials warned that their governments would need billions of dollars of support to keep their budgets afloat. The federal government responded with huge spending bills, and now states have billions and billions to spend on their politicians’ top priorities — but they’re not all spending the money the…Continue Reading

Brian Flores has a new gig in the league, but it won’t deter him from pressing forward on his racial discrimination suit. February 22, 2022 Brian Flores is once again coaching in the National Football League. Yes, in a position he is overqualified for: defensive assistant in charge of linebackers. Yes, it is for a…Continue Reading