Colorado Pols Article RatingCongress Stalls Out as Republicans Throw Rocks at Each Other | Colorado Pols
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-28% Moderately Liberal
- Reliability
70% ReliableGood
- Policy Leaning
2% Center
- Politician Portrayal
98% Negative
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "That means cuts to education, transportation, national parks, public health and even law enforcement, among other popular and widely used programs." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "But any good feelings out of that meeting crumbled Thursday morning, when five Republicans -- Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Dan Bishop (N.C.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Eli Crane (Ariz.) and Matthew M. Rosendale (Mont.) -- voted against advancing the measure to a final vote." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "But any good feelings out of that meeting crumbled Thursday morning, when five Republicans -- Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Dan Bishop (N.C.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Eli Crane (Ariz.) and Matthew M. Rosendale (Mont.) -- voted against advancing the measure to a final vote." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "But any good feelings out of that meeting crumbled Thursday morning, when five Republicans -- Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Dan Bishop (N.C.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Eli Crane (Ariz.) and Matthew M. Rosendale (Mont.) -- voted against advancing the measure to a final vote." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Rules Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) switched his vote from a yes to no, which allows Republicans to bring up the motion again later if they have the votes." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "McCarthy wouldn't be the first Republican leader in Congress to fall victim to right-wing Republicans waving torches." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The 2013 government shutdown happened for many of the same reasons and bled into a debt ceiling debate that ultimately ended the career of House Speaker John Boehner." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The deal was a true middle ground: Mr. Biden and other Democrats agreed to spending cuts on domestic programs in 2024 and 2025 and a reduction in IRS funding in exchange for House Republicans raising the debt limit and forgoing deeper cuts." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Mr. McCarthy does not have to bow to these lawmakers' demands." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Things have gotten so bad for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that his own Republican caucus can't even agree on trying to vote on a spending agreement." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "[Pols emphasis]The other problem for McCarthy, which he created himself when he agreed to a bunch of silly demands back in January in order to secure enough support to become Speaker in the first place, is that making a deal with Democrats will likely lead to a Republican effort to call a vote to Vacate the Chair and elect a new House Speaker." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Republicans and Democrats agreed on a new federal budget in May in order to raise the debt ceiling and stave off what economists predicted would have been a catastrophic default (this was the same debt ceiling vote that Rep. Lauren Boebert infamously missed altogether)." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was next in line to become Speaker, himself suffered a massive upset in a Republican Primary Election just a few months later." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "It's the debt ceiling compromise that was agreed to in May by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Biden." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "It's the debt ceiling compromise that was agreed to in May by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Biden." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "McCarthy can work with Democrats to prevent a government shutdown...or lose his job as House Speaker." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Colorado Congressman Jason Crow (D-Aurora) is at least trying to maintain a sense of humor about one cancelled vote after another." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "[Pols emphasis]If McCarthy does not negotiate with Democrats, he'll be giving into the demands of right-wing terrorists that will only lead to another round of ridiculous demands later:Instead, Mr. McCarthy has tried to get his far right on side, proposing a budget that would slash funding for everything other than defense or veterans by 8 percent." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "[Pols emphasis]If McCarthy does not negotiate with Democrats, he'll be giving into the demands of right-wing terrorists that will only lead to another round of ridiculous demands later:Instead, Mr. McCarthy has tried to get his far right on side, proposing a budget that would slash funding for everything other than defense or veterans by 8 percent." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
51% : That means cuts to education, transportation, national parks, public health and even law enforcement, among other popular and widely used programs.*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.