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bs-ed-op-0617-goldberg-superpowers-20190614. TEXT: Jonah Goldberg: Donald Trump's political superpowers only work on the Republican party. - Facebook CEO Mark Zucerkberg's apologies and evasions didn't cut it with Congress.
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- The federal government will run out of money to deal with the influx of Central American children crossing the U.S. border illegally this summer if lawmakers fail to approve $3.7 billion in emergency funds, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told a Senate panel Thursday.
- President Barack Obama asked Congress Tuesday for $3.7 billion in emergency funding to address the influx of children from Central America entering the country illegally, a first step in what the White House described as a broader effort to speed deportations.
- WASHINGTON (AP) ¿ A fear of voting has gripped Democratic leaders in the Senate, slowing the chamber's modest productivity this election season to a near halt.
- The mother of a Maryland man with Down syndrome who died during a confrontation with police last year told a Senate panel Tuesday that the federal government needs to spend more to train law enforcement on how to approach the disabled and mentally ill.
- President Barack Obama's action to expand clemency is welcome but insufficient; Congress needs to step in.
- Thomas E. Perez, the Marylander nominated by President Barack Obama to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, is set to face a critical vote in the Senate this week that puts his confirmation in the middle of a blistering battle over the use of the filibuster.
- The IRS' flaws can't be fixed; let's scrap it and adopt a simpler, fairer system of taxation.
- Jonah Goldberg writes that it shouldn't be up to the government to decide who qualifies as a journalist.
- President Barack Obama arrived in Annapolis on Wednesday to speak privately with Senate Democrats who are holding their annual strategy session at the Westin Hotel.
- WASHINGTON — Speaking at an emotional hearing on federal gun control proposals, Baltimore County Police Chief James W. Johnson urged lawmakers Wednesday to close loopholes and ban assault weapon sales or risk more tragedies like the recent elementary school shooting in Connecticut.
- President Barack Obama no longer needs Gov. Martin O'Malley as a top campaign surrogate, and the Democratic Governors Association is set to elect someone else as its chairman. But neither development is likely to push Maryland's governor off the national stage.
- Republicans are now flirting with deserting Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge.
- Failed leadership of Capital Hill should step aside
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- No one should be surprised that in the aftermath of Roger Goodell's "Bountygate" beatdown, a publicity-seeking politician has decided that it's time to waste a bunch of time and money in Washington holding a Judiciary Committee hearing on the subject.
- Sens. Benjamin L. Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski called on President Barack Obama on Wednesday to speed the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan.
