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Respondents who named health care as their priority for state elections frequently specified the issue: how universal health care would benefit everyone.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
The foundational flaw with the proposed reform is the stripping away of choice, and the dignity that comes with it, from low-income Americans.
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Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
More and more public policy is being decided at the state level but trustworthy sources of information about state capitals are fast disappearing.
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Kyle Gautreau
How can we repair the damage done to our governmental processes?
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The last government shutdown -- well, threatened shutdown, anyway -- seems so long ago. The nine-hour "funding lapse" of Feb. 9, like the three-day shutdown that began Jan. 20, hinged on how Congress was going to address the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that President Donald Trump said he would end March 5. He also called on Congress to pass a measure to save the program, created in 2012 by President Barack Obama via executive order. In the January shutdown, Democrati
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Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
In the January shutdown, Democratic lawmakers backed down on their threat to keep the government closed until a DACA deal was reached. ment funded through March 23 was overshadowed by the $1 trillion spending package of which it was a part.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Paul Stinson
The divergence in Texas might be viewed as a microcosm of the national debate over what it means to be pro-life.