Can Decorum and Civility Be Restored on Capitol Hill? We Ask the Experts
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Can Decorum and Civility Be Restored on Capitol Hill? We Ask the Experts
2023-11-24 21:45:17
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The date was Feb. 5, 1858, and as evening arrived in Washington, long-standing hostilities over the issue of slavery were about to boil over in the well of the House of Representatives. It began when Galusha Grow, a... Read More

Citizens Group Seeks to Bridge the Partisan Divide
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Citizens Group Seeks to Bridge the Partisan Divide
2022-05-08 16:18:15
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — All over Capitol Hill, the hullabaloo of the return to almost pre-pandemic normal was everywhere in evidence. Under a bright blue late afternoon sky, mobs of rambunctious school children were being corralled on the Capitol steps for class... Read More

Select Committee Endorses Strategies for Improving Civility on Capitol Hill
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Select Committee Endorses Strategies for Improving Civility on Capitol Hill
2021-12-10 21:09:27
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — A Select Committee formed to help make Congress function more efficiently and get up to speed with the 21st Century has endorsed its second set of recommendations for improving civility and fostering collaboration among members of Congress. The... Read More

Cunningham, Reed, Call for COVID-19 Relief, Civility During Bipartisan Town Hall
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Cunningham, Reed, Call for COVID-19 Relief, Civility During Bipartisan Town Hall
2020-11-02 14:02:54
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON - It came as no surprise last week when the majority of questions posed to two members of Congress during a virtual town hall Friday focused on currently stalled negotiations over the next COVID-19 relief package. Despite being on... Read More

Obama Steps Out as Nation Confronts Confluence of Crises
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Obama Steps Out as Nation Confronts Confluence of Crises

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is taking on an increasingly public role as the nation confronts a confluence of historic crises that has exposed deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities in America and reshaped the November election. In doing... Read More

On Presidents Day, Jeb Bush Urges Return to Civility in Politics
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On Presidents Day, Jeb Bush Urges Return to Civility in Politics

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a Presidents Day audience of investors and money managers that it’s time for a return to civility in the nation’s politics. And the man who was ousted early from the Republican... Read More

Earmarks Revival Might Usher In New Era of Congressional Civility
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Earmarks Revival Might Usher In New Era of Congressional Civility
2019-09-27 20:26:14
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON - If Congressional leaders are serious about restoring civility, reasoned debate and a spirit of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, they should seriously consider bringing back earmarks, a George Mason University professor told a House panel on Thursday. "They are... Read More

Unique Gathering at United Nations Asks, ‘Are You A Responsible Leader?’
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Unique Gathering at United Nations Asks, 'Are You A Responsible Leader?'
2019-05-10 20:48:51
by Dan McCue

Bawa Jain sounded as if he had still not quite come back down to Earth. A week removed from co-hosting the inaugural Responsible Leaders Summit at the United Nations in New York, the indefatigable secretary general of the World Council... Read More

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