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• Bob Dole’s final message stressed principled compromise

  By Quin Hillyer / 13 December 2021

  

  (Dec. 9) n U.S. Sen. Bob Dole’s final public message before he died on Dec. 5, he provided a lesson in civics that too few in today’s politics are willing […]

   

• Biden should learn some political geometry from Bill Clinton

  By Quin Hillyer / 4 October 2021

  

  (Sept. 29) If President Joe Biden were wiser and more honest, he would reboot his presidency to govern as he campaigned: a man of the center-left, eager to work with Republicans in […]

   

• Police bill failure shows Congress has lost reason, proportion

  By Quin Hillyer / 4 October 2021

  

  (Sept. 27) The brokenness of Capitol Hill was evident again late last week with the collapse of long-running negotiations about a criminal-justice reform bill. Rather than pass nothing, negotiators should […]

   

• Congress has a bad ‘relief’ idea and a good one

  By Quin Hillyer / 7 December 2020

  

  Two columns. (Nov. 30) Deferred Payroll taxes must be paid. Lawmakers and some taxpayers will face a year-end mess because of an ill-advised executive action earlier this year by President […]