Outside the Beltway

Progressive policy and constituent interests collide.

Finally.

We may be in a national crisis but it’s still politics as usual in Washington.

Some on Twitter (yes, I know) seem concerned, but is this even a good question?

Maybe it’s time to stop joking about senile politicians and do something about the issue.

Republicans are half as likely to take the outbreak seriously.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

The State of the Union is petulant.

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

To defang impeachment is an invitation for presidents to ignore the rule of law.

After months of delays, Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton is now saying he’d be willing to testify if he were subpoeanaed.

It could take weeks to resolve the impasse between the House and Senate over the procedures to be followed in the Senate trial of President Trump.

New Jersey Congressman Jeff van Drew, elected just last year as a Democrat, is now a Republican.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is suggesting she might hold back on sending the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. This seems like a bad idea.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

By the end of today, Donald Trump will most likely be the third President of the United States to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

The President of the United States has sent a bizarre, rant-filled letter to the Speaker of the House. Revealing just how unbalanced he actually is.

Democrats who could prove to be vulnerable in 2020 are largely lining up in favor of impeaching the President.

Late last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a trio of cases healing with subpoenas for the President’s financial records.

An interesting albeit dubious selection for Person of the Year.

The House Judiciary Committee has revealed the Articles of Impeachment against the President that it will vote on later this week.

After a hearing that largely recapped the past month of hearings on Capitol Hill, the House Judiciary Committee is set to unveil Articles of Impeachment today.

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.