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The Hill: Congress Blog

25 years of championing successful community development
Twenty-five years ago this week, the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994, championed by former Sen. Don Riegle (D-Mich.),destablished the CDFI fund to encourage small businesses, affordable housing, the availability...
Is Congress retrievable?
After giving a talk recently on “An Evolving Congress Over a Half Century,” I was asked by an audience member if there was one procedural change I would make to reverse the decline in Congress’s legislative capacity and productivity? I...
GM health care strike fiasco is symptom of broken system
The fact that health care benefits are at the center of a United Auto Workers strike that has shut down production at 33 General Motors plants last week shouldn’t surprise anyone who understands how our private health insurance system has wormed its...
Voter anger may spell the end for Trump and Biden
Americans — despite electing the candidate who promised to “drain the swamp” in 2016 — are angrier now than they were before that landmark election, and that spells trouble for both incumbent President Donald Trump and Democratic frontrunner Joe...
58 years after congressional authorization, Peace Corps continues to build better Americans
On Sept. 22, 1961, Congress approved legislation signed into law by President John F. Kennedy creating an organization whose goal was to promote world peace and friendship. The Peace Corps has been doing that and more ever since.Nearly six decades...
The PREPARED Act will protect vulnerable animals when disaster strikes
The deadly storm surge, heavy rainfall, and high winds of Hurricane Dorian were another sobering reminder of the devastating impact natural disasters have on families and communities, including local animals. Word is thankfully getting out about how...
Why young people should support expanding Social Security
I’m one of the youngest Millennials, born in 1995. Every day, I work to organize young people to take back our government by electing leaders who will fight for our future instead of for corporate donors. That includes fighting to expand, never cut...
Instead of raising the gas tax, stop wasting money on frivolous projects
A cardinal rule of government ought to be: stop wasting money before demanding taxpayers hand over more. When it comes to the Highway Trust Fund and the gas tax, Congress has failed to learn this simple lesson.The federal highway program is set to...
Diplomacy is still the best option for dealing with Iran
John Bolton may have stepped down from the Trump administration, but the risk of an unconstitutional war with Iran has only stepped up. On Sept. 15, a pre-dawn drone attack hit two major Aramco oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, cutting the Kingdom’s...
Kazakhstan will continue championing dialogue and cooperation
I am immensely proud to be travelling to New York to head Kazakhstan’s delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. It will be my first visit as president but I am, of course, no stranger – as a former foreign minister – to either the United...

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