“Russian speedskater Daniil Aldoshkin has apologized for displaying a middle finger following his team’s victory over the U.S. in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing,” The Hill reports.


“Russian speedskater Daniil Aldoshkin has apologized for displaying a middle finger following his team’s victory over the U.S. in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing,” The Hill reports.
“House Democrats who are pushing to lift a $10,000 fixed cap on state and local taxes (SALT) said they will support the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed the U.S. Senate…
“The Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general led a team that gained unauthorized access to voting equipment while hunting for evidence to support former President Donald Trump’s false election-fraud claims,”…
“President Biden is on the verge of his own crowning health care achievement to call, in his words, a BFD,” Stat reports. “After two decades, Democrats are finally on track…
“I would much rather serve with Mikie Sherrill and Chrissy Houlahan and Elissa Slotkin than Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, even though on substance certainly I have big disagreements…
“A Florida prosecutor vowed Sunday to fight his suspension from office by Gov. Ron DeSantis over his promise not to enforce the state’s 15-week abortion ban and support for gender…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Saturday said “no one can convince” her that the rioters behind the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol were not anti-fascist protesters and…
“New York state health officials have found indications of additional cases of polio virus in wastewater samples from two different counties, leading them to warn that hundreds of people may…
“We’ve been fighting for this for decades. Now I can look my kids in the eye and say we’re really doing something about climate.” — Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), quoted…
After a 16-hour marathon debate and series of amendments that went through the night, the U.S. Senate passed a monumental climate, tax and health care spending package that Democrats negotiated…
New York Times: “In a sign that Democrats are confident they are in the final stretch, Vice President Kamala Harris has arrived in the Senate, ostensibly to break the tie…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) commenting on the 14-hour vote-a-rama in the Senate: “I’m good on little sleep but this is absurd. It’s only Republican amendments now with all 50 Democrats…
“It’s just all chaos now until the end.” — Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), quoted by the New York Times, on the vote-a-rama for the reconciliation bill under consideration by the…
Playbook: “Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act will make Biden one of the most legislatively successful presidents of the modern era. We once noted that the mismatch between the size…
Out this week: The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party by Dana Milbank. A scathing history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political…
In a memo to campaigns and allies, the House Democratic campaign arm says that internal polls from more than 20 frontline and target congressional districts show that Republican attacks on…
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) warned that Republicans could pay a price in November if they don’t reel in extreme takes on abortion policy, Politico reports. Said Mace: “I am staunchly…
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told CNN that Senate Democrats are discussing some possible changes to the tax provisions before their reconciliation package gets approved by the chamber the afternoon. It’s…
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll found that voters would choose a candidate who favors keeping abortion legal over one who favors limiting abortion except to protect the mother’s life by…
“Republican lawmakers on Sunday successfully stripped a $35 price cap on the cost of insulin for many patients from the ambitious legislative package Democrats are moving through Congress this weekend,…
“The U.S. Secret Service has given the House Jan. 6 committee a listing of agency-issued cell phone numbers belonging to agents based in Washington, D.C., for the period the panel…
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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