Outside the Beltway

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.

The Trump Administration is warning Congress that we will need to raise the debt ceiling by September. Congress should take this as an opportunity to eliminate it entirely.

The House of Representatives passed a defense spending bill that seeks to limit Presidential authority when it comes to striking Iran and aideing the Saudi war on Yemen.

Trump opened his mouth and, once again, racist bilge came spewing out.

Later today, the President is expected to take some form of ‘Executive Action’ in an effort to get a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

A weird media narrative has formed.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered a major defeat on a signature issue.

Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before Congress in public. Testimony that is likely to be the big story of the summer.

With hours to go before they were set to start. the President delayed the mass deportation raids that were supposed to begin this morning.

The latest is about deportations

Congress is considering a bill that would establish a commission to examine the issue of reparations for slavery.;

Democrats are trying to rein in President Trump. It won’t work.

The Justice Department has released a memo attempting to justify the Administration’s refusal to comply with a subpoena for the President;’s tax returns. Their argument is weak to say the least.

With the Trump Administration continuing to stonewall investigations, the House of Representatives is seeking to ramp up the pressure.

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

The White House is continuing to stonewall legitimate Congressional investigations, but Congress is starting to push back.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed a lawsuit against Trump “national emergency” to fund the border wall, but his ruling did not reach the merits of the lawsuit’s claim.

I continue to be opposed to impeachment of the President, but I’m slowly moving in that direction thanks primary to the Administration’s own actions.

Does the House have an obligation to proceed with impeachment?

It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment, folks.

President Trump’s stonewalling strategy suffered another legal setback in New York City yesterday.

The Toddler-in-Chief has issued an ultimatum.

As the Administration continues to stonewall legitimate requests from Congress for documents and witnesses, pressure is growing on Speaker Pelosi to authorize the opening of an impeachment inquiry.

The House has passed legislation that would extend the protections of the Civil Rights Act to LGBT Americans, but it is probably doomed in the Senate.

Justin Amash spoke out against the President and Attorney General. Unsurprisingly this is not being received well by his fellow Republicans.

Republican Congressman Justin Amash has always been a rebel within his own party, now he’s making that even more apparent.

The President unveiled some incoherent ideas yesterday that have no chance of becoming law.