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Undated: The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party.[17]
The Democrats' dominant worldview was once social conservatism and economic liberalism while populism was its leading characteristic in the rural South. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate in the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party, beginning a switch of political platforms between the Democratic and Republican Party over the coming decades, and leading to Woodrow Wilson being elected as the first fiscally progressive Democrat. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social liberal platform,[3] supporting social justice.[18]
Today, the House Democratic caucus is composed mostly of centrists and progressives,[6] with a small minority of conservative Democrats. The party's philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality, along with the welfare state.[19] It seeks to provide government intervention and regulation in the economy.[20] These interventions, such as the introduction of social programs, support for labor unions, affordable college tuitions, moves toward universal health care and equal opportunity, consumer protection and environmental protection form the core of the party's economic policy.[19][21] The party has united with smaller liberal regional parties throughout the country, such as the Farmer–Labor Party in Minnesota and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29
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Undated: In recent years, Marc and Lori Kasowitz have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican causes and to Donald Trump's presidential campaign. They have also donated to Democratic politicians in the past, including President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Senators Chuck Schumer, and Harry Reid.[18]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Kasowitz
February 12: [A Democratic] worry is that the party’s fired-up base, reacting to Trump, could push the party to the left when they have to figure out how to connect with the middle.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2017/02/11/democrats-struggling-rebuild-their-base/BVrCklRumdy8rq7EKC27iN/story.html
March 23: Trump says he believes Russia was responsible for the [sic] hacking the Democratic National committee in 2016: “I think it was Russia,” Trump said, adding that Putin “should not be doing it. ... He won’t be doing it. Russia will have much greater respect for our country when I am leading it than when other people have led it,” Trump said.
http://www.asianews.online/top-news/80-times-trump-talked-about-putin.html
March 30: House Speaker Paul Ryan says he has no interest in working with Democrats on getting health care legislation passed
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/paul-ryan-democrats-health-care/index.html
March 30: Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) on Thursday criticized Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) for saying he does not want to work with Democrats on healthcare.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/326466-gop-senator-jabs-ryan-on-dems-healthcare
May (undated): Democratic voters are becoming less white, less religious and better-educated at a faster rate than that of the country, while Republicans are aging more quickly than the country as a whole.
An average of just 14% of Republicans ... approved of Obama over the course of his presidency, compared with an average of 81% of Democrats.
http://www.pewresearch.org/2017/01/10/how-america-changed-during-barack-obamas-presidency/
May 11: “The Democratic Party and their constituents have decided their byword is going to be ‘resist,’ ” he [John Malcolm, director of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies] said. “No matter what the president proposes, they will do everything they can to thwart him, including resorting to the courts.” [Of course, this is not how Democrats see their efforts ... they're not talking anger as much as unhappiness with Trump, his attitudes, behaviors, antagonism towards the rule of law, etc.]
http://thehill.com/regulation/332858-lawsuits-piling-up-against-trump
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June 28: By more than 4-1, those surveyed trust congressional Democrats over congressional Republicans to protect the interests of them and their families on health care, 43%-10%. Another 19% say they trust President Trump most. The president's ratings on handling health care far lags his standing on other issues, including the economy and national security. Twenty-seven percent approve of the job he's doing on health care; 61% disapprove.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/28/suffolk-poll-obamacare-trump-senate-health-care-plan/103249346/
June 6: Public disapproval has hardened Trump's opposition, giving Democrats hope for the future and has provided some Republicans the ability to stand up to the President when needed.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/trump-agenda-russia-congress/index.html
July 30: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday said questions about her future in leadership are “unimportant."
"... What is important is that we have the lively debate on a better deal,” Pelosi said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/344552-pelosi-unimportant-to-win-midterm-elections
August 18: Trump ... lashed out at "obstructionist Democrats," claiming that they have impeded efforts to keep the country safe. "Radical Islamic Terrorism must be stopped by whatever means necessary!" he tweeted Friday morning.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-updates-everything-president-trump-retweets-alt-right-blogger-who-1502769297-htmlstory.html
October 16: Sen. Dick Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate, said in a radio interview Sunday [following Democratic Rep. Cheri Bustos] that his party could lose to President Donald Trump in 2020 if they "overdo it" and become too liberal. ... Durbin added that he doesn't count Trump out and that the 2016 election showed that "if you take (Trump) for granted, he'll beat you."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/politics/kfile-dick-durbin-sunday-radio-interview/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
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November 4: Trump opened the floodgates. Now Democratic women are running for office in record-breaking numbers
http://worldnewsxl.com/index.php/2017/11/04/trump-opened-the-floodgates-now-democratic-women-are-running-for-office-in-record-breaking-numbers/
November 10: Republicans are leaving office at a higher rate than in recent congresses, suggesting Democrats could pick up seats in the 2018 midterm elections. On Thursday it was Virginia Republican Bob Goodlatte, the influential chairman of the House judiciary committee.
Already, at least 25 Republicans have announced they are retiring, running for another office or resigning outright. They're leaving from all over the map, from southern New Jersey to southern New Mexico.
Democrats need to pick up 24 seats to retake the majority from Republicans, who've had control of the House since 2011
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/10/politics/house-retirement-tracker/index.html
November 30: One Michigan Democrat running for office has a suggestion for how to end sexual harassment.
"If the last few weeks have taught us anything, it's that we need more women in positions of power, not less," [Dana Nessel, a Democrat running to be Michigan's attorney general] says. "So when you're choosing Michigan's next attorney general, ask yourself this: Who can you trust most not to show you their penis in a professional setting? Is it the candidate who doesn't have a penis? I'd say so."
In the ad, Nessel outlines what she promises not to do if she's elected. "I will not sexually harass my staff, and I won't tolerate it in your workplace either," she says. "I won't walk around in a half-open bathrobe. And I'll continue to take all sex crimes seriously, just as I did as a prosecutor."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/30/politics/michigan-democrat-dana-nessel-elect-more-women-ad/index.html
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January 2: "I've never seen anything like this," said Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY's List. "Every day, dozens more women come to our website, come to our Facebook page and say, 'I am mad as hell. I want to do something about it. What should I do now?'"
In the four weeks after the 2016 election, 1,000 women came to the group's website to learn about running for office. That number has now surpassed 26,000. By comparison, the group was in contact with 960 women for the previous election cycle.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/record-number-women-express-interest-seeking-office-52098694
February 5: Trump takes aim at Schiff ahead of push to release Democrats' memo ... President Donald Trump accused the House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat Monday of criminally leaking sensitive information.
Trump's tweet comes as Democrats push to release a memo expected to rebut a Republican document of alleged FBI surveillance abuses.
"Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!" Trump tweeted.
Schiff quickly responded on Twitter.
"Mr. President, I see you've had a busy morning of 'Executive Time.' Instead of tweeting false smears, the American people would appreciate it if you turned off the TV and helped solve the funding crisis, protected Dreamers or...really anything else," the California Democrat tweeted.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/05/politics/trump-little-adam-schiff-tweet/index.html
February 5: Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are likely to vote Monday evening to make public the Democratic memo rebutting GOP allegations that the FBI abused surveillance laws, a mov
The classified memo from Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, is written to push back against the central allegations of the Republican memo from Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes. Nunes' memo was released Friday and alleges the FBI abused the FISA process in obtaining a surveillance warrant on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/gop-expected-to-agree-to-send-democratic-memo-to-trump-s-desk
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February 5: Trump labels Democrats ‘treasonous’ for lack of applause at State of Union
President Trump told a Cincinnati crowd that Democrats’ “dead silence” at his State of the Union address was “un-American” and even “treasonous.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-democrats-treasonous-for-lack-of-applause-at-state-of-union-1154143299692
February 6: Duckworth calls out 'Cadet Bone Spurs' after Trump's 'treasonous' remark
An Illinois Democrat who was seriously wounded in Iraq derisively referred to President Donald Trump's draft deferments after Trump called Democrats "treasonous" for not clapping during his State of the Union speech.
"We don't live in a dictatorship or a monarchy. I swore an oath—in the military and in the Senate—to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not to mindlessly cater to the whims of Cadet Bone Spurs and clap when he demands I clap," Sen. Tammy Duckworth tweeted Monday evening.
Duckworth, an Army veteran who lost her legs while serving in Iraq, appeared to be referencing Trump's draft deferments. Trump received five draft deferments throughout the Vietnam War, and on one occasion, Trump received a deferment because of bone spurs.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/06/politics/tammy-duckworth-cadet-bone-spurs/index.html
February 7: Democrats won a Missouri special election on Tuesday for a state house seat in a district that President Donald Trump won in a landslide victory during the presidential election.
However, Republicans easily won three other state house seats in Missouri on Tuesday and still have a super majority, the ability to override a governor’s veto - in the chamber.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-missouri-election/democrat-wins-special-election-in-trump-heartland-missouri-idUSKBN1FR0YP
February 12: Cruz warns Texas GOP: 'The left is going to show up'
"Let me tell you right now: The left is going to show up," Cruz said during his keynote address at the party's Lincoln Reagan Dinner.
"They will crawl over broken glass in November to vote."
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/373393-cruz-warns-texas-gop-the-left-is-going-to-show-up
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February 14: People are defecting from the GOP. But not to the Democrats
That's the conclusion of an analysis of Gallup data by Marquette Law professor and pollster Charles Franklin. He found that while there is a slight increase in Democratic Party support among Americans, more Americans are just becoming pure independents.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/14/politics/fewer-republicans-more-independents-no-parties/index.html
March 4: The 30 Fortune 500 companies that have thrown the most money at Republicans and Democrats in the last decade
https://www.businessinsider.com/fortune-500-companies-republican-democrat-political-donations-2018-2
March 5: President Donald Trump joked about impeachment, Jared Kushner’s security clearance and Melania Trump leaving him as he attended his first Gridiron Club dinner, a highly formal and traditional event full of the news media he often dubs “fake news.”
Trump said that his staff worried how well he would do with self-deprecating humor.
“I told them not to worry — nobody can do self-deprecating humor better than I can.”
A number of his quips made fun of the atmosphere in the West Wing after a chaotic week, what with more staff departures and rumors of more to come.
“It’s been really another calm week at the White House,” he quipped. “We finally have it running like a fine-tuned machine.”
Among those who stayed late for an after-party: Jared and Ivanka, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and, as the clock went past 1 a.m., Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
http://variety.com/2018/politics/news/trump-gridiron-dinner-1202716766/
March 9: Democrats seek subpoenas for White House security clearance data
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-clearances/democrats-seek-subpoenas-for-white-house-security-clearance-data-idUSKCN1GL2ME
March 10: March 10: [Trump] called NBC host Chuck Todd -- who he's nicknamed "sleepy eyes" -- a "sleeping son of a bitch" and described Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters as a "very low IQ individual."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/10/politics/trump-pennsylvania-speech-rick-saccone/index.html
March 21: Democrats get high turnout again, this time in Illinois
The primaries in Illinois on Tuesday night were, for the most part melodramatic -- some big names got scares but there were no major upsets.
There was, however, some good news for Democrats: In the second of two statewide primaries this year (Texas being the other), turnout was significantly higher for Democrats than in either 2010 or 2014.
There were just under 1.3 million votes cast in the Illinois Democratic primary Tuesday to just over 700,000 in the Republican primary. Put another way, 64% of the votes cast were on the Democratic line, compared with only 36% on the Republican line. Now, Illinois is a blue state, but even taking that into account, it was an impressive performance for Democrats.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/democrat-high-turnout-illinois/index.html
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April 11: House Key Race alerts: Paul Ryan's and six other seats move toward Democrats
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/11/politics/house-race-ratings-ryan-retirement-update/index.html
May 7: John Kerry engaging in shadow diplomacy to salvage Iran deal
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/05/politics/john-kerry-iran-deal/index.html
May 22: Stacey Abrams wins Democratic primary in Georgia. She could become the nation's first black woman governor.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/politics/georgia-governor-race-stacey-abrams/index.html
May 24: Trump on collision course with Congress on ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications giant sanctioned for doing business with Iran and North Korea.
Trump has publicly signaled his desire to ease the restrictions on ZTE as he seeks China's cooperation on North Korea talks and hammering out a trade deal.
But Trump’s pivot on ZTE has received terrible reviews from Republicans in Congress, who have joined with Democrats in passing measures to ensure the restrictions are kept in place.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/389097-trump-on-collision-course-with-congress-on-zte
June 20: Support for Democratic House candidates has ticked up slightly to 50%, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS and released Wednesday.
The percentage of voters who said Democrats when asked which party they'll support in November was up three points since CNN's May poll, and Democrats have a sizable lead among voters who are most enthusiastic about voting. Forty-two percent of registered voters said they'll support the Republican candidate.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/generic-ballot-june-poll/index.html
July 24: Attorney General Jeff Sessions chuckled and repeated "Lock her up" after the familiar Trump campaign rally chant rang out during his speech at a conservative conference for high school students on Tuesday.
The chant, President Donald Trump's pejorative mantra against political rival Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election, occurred during the attorney general's appearance at Turning Point USA's High School Leadership Summit in Washington.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-repeats-lock-her-chant-high-school-n894021
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July 25: Democrats are struggling to find an opening in their fight to sink Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.
They can’t block the nominee on their own, but they’re under intense pressure from liberals to wage a full-scale attack against Kavanaugh as they try to sway the one or two Republicans needed to sink President Trump’s pick and score a major victory heading into the midterm elections.
In the roughly two weeks since Kavanaugh was announced as Trump’s pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, Democrats have jumped from abortion and the Affordable Care Act to what his past writings on executive authority could mean for special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/398704-dems-struggle-on-kavanaugh
July 26: Trump Facebook Ads Blast Democrats Over Second Amendment: ‘The Truth Is Finally Out’
More than 100 ads contend Dems want to curtail gun rights
“It is unequivocally not the Democratic caucus’ position to repeal the Second Amendment,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told The New York Times.
https://www.thewrap.com/trump-facebook-ads-democrats-second-amendment/
September 1: Democrats on Saturday slammed what they described as a “Friday night document massacre” after the White House withheld more than 100,000 pages of Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s records, citing presidential privilege.
"... President Trump’s decision to step in at the last moment and hide 100,000 pages of Judge Kavanaugh’s records from the American public is not only unprecedented in the history of Supreme Court nominations, it has all the makings of a cover-up.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/01/democrats-decry-friday-night-document-massacre-as-white-house-withholds-kavanaugh-docs.html
September 7: Obama's campaign season debut launches his midterm effort to rally Democrats to the polls and end Republicans' grip on power in Congress. The former president warned Friday that the stakes are high and the consequences of staying on the sidelines “dire.”
Delivering some of his toughest broadsides against the GOP since leaving office – and referring to Trump by name, something he used to avoid – Obama said there are certain "powerful and priveleged" people who want to "keep us angry."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/07/obama-rails-against-trump-republicans-in-fiery-return-to-campaign-trail.html
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September 7: In the battle for control of Congress, President Donald Trump's weapon of choice is fear.
At a rally for Republican Senate nominee Matt Rosendale in Billings, Montana, on Thursday night, the president warned his faithful that Democrats would raise their taxes, take their guns, block his wall, abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, open U.S. borders, end Social Security and cut Medicare.
He's also warned supporters this summer that the outcome in November could spell trouble for freedom of speech and religion and the First Amendment — and that if the GOP loses, violence could follow.
The overwhelming majority of the claims are patently false, but with two months to go — and analysts in both parties convinced that there’s a nonremote chance Republicans could lose at least the House — Trump is in desperation mode.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fear-loathing-trump-campaign-trail-n907521
September 8: Ex-intelligence officials run for Congress as Democrats.
Fed up with what they see as Trump's disdain and distrust of the intelligence community — and his refusal to embrace fully the conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election — an unusually large number of former intelligence officers and operatives are campaigning for office as Democrats in this fall's midterm elections, according to experts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/their-new-mission-foil-trump-ex-intelligence-officials-run-congress-n907291
September 10: President Donald Trump has steadfastly refused to release his tax returns. But if Democrats take the majority in the House or Senate following the mid-term elections in November, the choice may no longer be his to make.
... thanks to a 1924 provision in the Internal Revenue Code, the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee are authorized to request the president's -- or indeed anyone's -- tax returns from the IRS to conduct an investigation.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/trump-tax-returns/
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September 15: As an anti-war activist in the early 2000s, Arizona Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema led a group that distributed flyers depicting an American soldier as a skeleton inflicting "U.S. terror" in Iraq and the Middle East.
The flyers could become an issue for Sinema, the Democratic nominee challenging Republican Martha McSally in one of the most competitive US Senate races this year.
Sinema's past political positions are a contrast from the more moderate profile she has developed since her 2012 election to Congress.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/15/politics/kfile-sinema-flyers/index.html
October 4: President Trump decried Democrats as members of the "party of crime" at a rally in support of Republican House and Senate candidates in Minnesota Thursday night
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-dems-party-of-crime-at-minnesota-rally-says-theyre-trying-to-destroy-kavanaugh
October 5: The effort to unseat Susan Collins in 2020 is already underway
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/05/politics/susan-collins-2020-challenge/
October 8: To attack Dems, Trump blasts immigration bill that doesn’t exist
“Every single Democrat in the U.S. Senate has signed up for the open borders – and it’s a bill. And it’s called The Open Borders Bill. What’s going on? And it’s written by – guess who – Dianne Feinstein.”
There is no “Open Borders Bill.” Trump made it up. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has a bill to prohibit family separations at the border, and the proposal enjoys broad Democratic support, but no sane person would characterize that as an “open borders” policy.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/attack-dems-trump-blasts-immigration-bill-doesnt-exist
October 11: Mnuchin: Democrats, not Trump's tax bill, to blame for deficits
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/11/politics/mnuchin-budget-deficit/
October 12: 'We’ve never seen anything like this': GOP overwhelmed by Democratic cash
The gush of spending in House races has triggered recriminations on the right as the party tries to salvage its majority.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/12/gop-democratic-record-fundraising-response-898162
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November 5: In Ohio on Monday afternoon, he [Trump] said that the Democrats would “take a wrecking ball to our economy and to the future of our country,” and described their agenda as “a socialist nightmare.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/hopeful-signs-for-democrats-to-score-a-midterms-victory-against-trump
November 13: A recent survey of more than 3,000 Americans found that Democrats view Republicans largely as racist, bigoted and sexist.
The survey, conducted by Axios, showed that 61 percent of Democrats saw the GOP in a negative fashion, and a combined 9 percent saw Republicans as "fair," "thoughtful" or "kind."
Republicans, too, seemed to view Democrats in a similar light, with 54 percent of those surveyed saying their counterparts are "spiteful" and 49 percent as "ignorant."
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/11/13/survey-majority-democrats-view-republicans-racist-sexist-bigoted
This weekend, Trump managed to insult a venerated military veteran, mangled the name of a wildfire-scarred town that he had just left, confused the president of Finland by making strange comments about leaf raking and, like a grade-schooler, attempted to taunt a critic in Congress with a naughty play on his name. All in just 48 hours.
November 25: Senator Amy Klobuchar isn’t confirming or denying a possible presidential run in 2020.
“I’ll just say that I’ll let you know if — I’ll let you know when I make any kind of a decision ...
Senator Klobuchar is considered one of the potential candidates who will make a bid for the White House in the next election. In an interview with ABC This Week, she said people have been talking to her about a possible run.
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/11/25/amy-klobuchar-2020-presidential-run/
November 28: Democrats Pick Nancy Pelosi As House Speaker, Despite Earlier Internal Opposition
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/28/671493966/democrats-pick-nancy-pelosi-as-house-speaker-despite-earlier-internal-opposition
December 6: 'This is a disgrace': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams her future colleagues in Congress for employing unpaid interns and failing to pay staffers a 'living wage'
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a newly elected US House representative, called out her future colleagues in Congress, including Democrats, for paying their low-level staffers salaries below the "living wage" and for employing unpaid interns, even as members of Congress are paid multiple times more than the average American.
https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-slams-future-colleagues-congress-for-employing-unpaid-interns-living-wage-2018-12
December 14: Here Are The 'Outside The Box' Progressive Ideas 2020 Democrats Are Pitching
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/14/675655962/here-are-the-outside-the-box-progressive-ideas-2020-democrats-are-pitching
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January 13: Three newly empowered Democratic House committee chairmen, alarmed by statements over the weekend by President Trump about his former lawyer’s planned testimony before Congress, cautioned on Sunday that any effort to discourage or influence a witness’s testimony could be construed as a crime.
The warning, a stark and unusual message from some of Congress’s most influential Democrats, underscores the increasing legal and political peril facing Mr. Trump. Democrats are beginning their own investigations of him as the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, appears to move toward a conclusion in his investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia and potential obstruction of justice by Mr. Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/us/politics/trump-cohen-testimony.html
May 24: Fact-checking Trump, Sanders' claims that House Dems getting nothing done
While defending President Donald Trump's decision to stop work on infrastructure legislation until House investigations into his administration stop, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday morning argued on CNN that House Democrats have not accomplished anything legislatively.
Both Sanders' claim and Trump's are misleading. While the Democratic-controlled House is pursuing 11 investigations relating to the President, House Democrats have also passed 235 pieces of legislation since January, including several major bills. Of those, only a handful have been taken up by the Republican-held Senate.
According to Congress.gov, the House has passed 235 pieces of legislation during the current session of Congress. That includes big items on the Democratic agenda as well as smaller bipartisan bills that get passed in any Congress, like the naming of post offices.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/sarah-sanders-trump-house-democrats-do-nothing-fact-check/index.html
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