Tim Roemer

Sep 17, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Nick Penniman |Barbara Comstock |Tim Roemer |Dick Gephardt

By The Editors  from Fall 2024, No. 74 – 1 MIN READ Too often, when progressives talk about ways to save and strengthen democracy, they’re talking only to themselves, with grand plans to transform the system dramatically. Ideas that will win only liberal support may be laudable, but let’s face it—in today’s Washington, they’re probably going nowhere.

Sep 17, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Barbara Comstock |Tim Roemer

A merica is still an exceptional place, and our founders’ dreams and intentions are alive and admired around the world. This is the case largely thanks to our elections, which reflect the wishes of our citizens and are literally run by them. American elections are overseen and funded almost entirely at the local level, by the more than 10,000 local jurisdictions that administer them.

Jun 11, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Nick Penniman |Barbara Comstock |Tim Roemer |Dick Gephardt

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Feb 19, 2024 | thehill.com | Zach Wamp |Tim Roemer

With the New Hampshire primary behind us, we are entering what will be one of the longest and most consequential presidential elections in U.S. history. It will also be excruciatingly negative and divisive.

Feb 1, 2023 | marinij.com | Zach Wamp |Tim Roemer

A string of historic bipartisan victories during the last Congress — including an update of the Electoral Count Act and transformational investments in infrastructure, semiconductor manufacturing, veterans protections and new energy transitions — demonstrate that Congress really can work in a bipartisan and productive manner for the American people. With a new Republican majority in the House of Representatives, insider experts predict Congress will grind to a halt.