Not exact matches
This behaviour can take many forms: signing a plebiscite; sending an Email
to one's senator or
representative; participating in a demonstration;
voting on a school board;
voting to elect a homophobe;
talking to co-workers or friends, delivering a sermon; etc..
A president given
to endless
talk with a preference for making his points via anecdotes (such as one about why a portrait of George Washington is on the wall of a particular toilet), Lincoln, a Republican, favored the adoption of the amendment
to abolish slaves as did many in his own party, but
to get the required two - thirds
vote of the House of
Representatives thereby sending it
to the states for ratification, he had
to bring in some Democrats.
Specifically, on Thursday, January 18, 2018, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Majority
voted to allow Members of the U.S. House of
Representatives to review a misleading
talking points «memo» authored by Republican staff that selectively references and distorts highly classified information.