If the House, the Senate, and the American people each do their part, we can engage our partisan differences more constructively. Nothing is more important to realizing a fuller measure of the promise of American self-government.
Gabby Giffords, Jeff Flake: As Biden works to rebuild America, let s do our part by letting go of partisanship
The first principle and best practice of engaging our differences more constructively is to listen across the divide with the goal of understanding.
Gabrielle Giffords and Jeff Flake
Opinion contributors
The Biden administration and Congress have embarked on the herculean task of ending the pandemic, rebuilding our economy, and setting the country back on a steady path.
The task is made more difficult by reverberations from Jan. 6. President Joe Biden’s first congressional address took place at the scene of a violent siege that aimed to prevent certifying the election results.
it s probably working where you have paul ryan and mitch mcconnell really in control of whatever legislation s gonna come out. they re making it clear they have no interest in this. he understands 98% of americans want background checks. he understands that if he can get in this conversation and put forward something that is attractive to democrats and commonsense american, they re gonna give him.sfor it. then as we see with the tweets that came out from the nra, making sure he is protecting his base. he s doing in a sense what he does really well which is controlling the conversation and then not having any leadership or having to actually produce results. can we just use immigration as an example? the president put forward a policy for legislation that would be something the republicans wouldn t want, but the democrats attacked him for it. he gave them exactly what they wanted and they turned him down