Outside the Beltway

In the wake of yesterday’s hearing, the House of Representatives is taking the inevitable next step.

Even as candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to base their campaigns on it, Democrats appear to be growing skeptical of ‘Medicare For All.’

Given the times we live in, you may be tempted to argue about politics tomorrow. Here’s my advice — don’t do it.

A Senate Impeachment trial in early January would have a serious impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

After a long day of hearings, the case against the President is becoming clearer and Republican defenses becoming more absurd.

As the impeachment proceedings move forward, Democrats are shifting their focus to a specific, and powerful, charge.

Day two of Congressional impeachment hearings will be marked by the testimony of the former American Ambassador to Ukraine.

Elizabeth Warren’s fellow Democrats aren’t so thrilled with her ‘Medidare For All’ plan.

The next steps in the impeachment process are relatively easy to predict.

Today the House of Representatives approved the procedures for the impeachment proceeding against the President.

Barely in office a year, California Congresswoman Katie Hill has been forced to resign in the face of inappropriate contact with a staff member and a campaign worker.

A Federal District Court Judge gave the House of Representatives, and the nation, a big win yesterday.

We won’t have whats-his-name to kick around anymore.

As the vultures continue to circle above the White House, the President continues to lash out.

Fear of Donald Trump and his minions is making it hard for Republicans to answer a simple question.

The White House is doubling down on its illegitimate stonewalling of valid Congressional document requests.

Public opinion on impeachment has shifted rapidly to the point where a majority of Americans support an impeachment inquiry and support for removal is growing as well.

A big haul for the GOP.

The time for sitting on the sidelines is over. Donald Trump cannot be allowed to get away with his usurpation of power, his disdain for the law, or his continued policies that have damaged the country.

Public opinion on impeachment has taken a rapid turn that should alarm the Trump White House.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky finds himself in he middle of an historic American scandal, and with a new nickname.

House Democrats are reportedly looking at an impeachment process narrowly focused on the President’s efforts to obtain a quid pro quo from the President of Ukraine.

For the first time, it’s conceivable that Republicans will turn against the President.

The White House has released a summary of the July 25th phone call between President Trump and the President of Ukraine. It doesn’t help President Trump or his defenders.

The escalation has been rapid, dramatic, and warranted.

Just days before he repeatedly pressured the President of Ukraine to reopen a closed investigation involving the son of former Vice-President Biden, President Trump suspended military aid that had been authorized by Congress.

A wrongheaded solution for a legitimate problem.

While some 135 House Democrats have endorsed impeaching the President, most other Democrats on Capitol Hill are not supporting the idea. And neither is Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

While some Democrats are calling for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t nearly as eager to go down that road.

The House Judiciary Committee is moving forward on impeachment. Sort of.

House Democrats are set to investigate the payoffs made to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

A new poll shows that most Americans want President Trump out of office, but don’t want to see the House impeach him.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions toward two Democratic Congresswomen,seemingly at the bidding of President Trump, is the latest example of the growing partisan divide over policy toward Israel.

After urging from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has barred two Muslim-American Congressmen from visiting Israel. It is a foolish and outrageous decision.

Under the Trump Administration, the American commitment to human rights around the world is basically dead.

More than half of the House Democratic Caucus has endorsed impeachment, but that’s unlikely to cause Nancy Pelosi to move off her current position.

The House Democratic Caucus is becoming more divided on the issue of moving forward with impeachment.

The Mueller hearings don’t appear to have moved the needle of public opinion when it comes to impeachment.

Despite all the complaining, we’re in a golden age of political and policy coverage.

The Mueller hearing has weakened the political argument for impeachment. Democrats need to proceed with caution, and concentrate on winning in 2020 rather than removing the President from office prematurely.

Starting at 8:30 a.m. this morning, the eyes and ears of Washington and much of the nation will be focus on one thing, the testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

President Trump and the Congressional leadership have reached agreement on a multi-year budget deal that that busts through all remaining controls on spending.

On Wednesday, much of official Washington, and likely a good part of the country itself, will pause to watch what are likely to biggest hearings since the late 1980s.

A new poll finds that a majority of Americans oppose statehood for the District of Columbia.

The President’s decision to base his re-election campaign on racism and stoking racial and ethnic divisions is quite simple to explain.

The legal and political showdown between Congress and the White House has entered into a new stage.

House Democrats rejected an effort by a member of the progressive wing of the party to force an impeachment inquiry against the President.

For the first time in a century, a chamber of Congress has voted to condemn a sitting President. That won’t stop this President.

The President is defending his racist tweets against four Democratic Congresswomen, calling them Communists who hate America.