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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
What to Hope for If GOP Controls Congress
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, September 18 2014
Unless voters unexpectedly send Republican super-majorities to both chambers of Congress this November, radical policy change isn’t coming to Washington, D.C., during President Obama’s last two years in office. But that doesn’t mean there’s no hope for improvement. A unified, Republican-led Senate and House of Representatives can do a lot to move the policy agenda in a more conservative direction.  The most obvious difference will be legislative action on ObamaCare. To date, the House has passed more than 50 bills that would repeal or reform part or all of the controversial…
 
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