The Lights Are Out In The House

By Jamie Stiehm

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WASHINGTON – Nobody home. Gone fishing. The lights are out in the federal government. The House of Representatives chamber is deserted and silent as a tomb. It’s almost as if its Republican leaders don’t care if the country is in crisis. While the president carries out a bloody plot to snuff out the federal government like a brief candle, the Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, put the House on recess. This way, Johnson and the Republican half […]

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Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm is a Washington journalist and public speaker who writes a syndicated column on national politics and history for Creators Syndicate. Her commentaries and op-eds have appeared in leading newspapers across the nation, such as American Heritage, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Francisco Chronicle. She wrote several essays for The New York Times’ “Disunion” series on the Civil War, one of which, The War Comes Home for Lee, was chosen for their hardbound collection, Disunion, published by Oxford University Press [2016].

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