Steve Israel: “Most people knew that when reconciliation was pronounced dead that the obituary was premature.”

Our democracy is so frayed, right now that fundamental questions of fitness and truth are just put in the background as long as you are extreme enough.

If you don't pass both of these bills, the midterm is over, you're back in the minority.

Both of these races will test this proposition, do Democratic voters want purity and ideology on the left? Or do they want pragmatism and winnability near the center?

We believe that to be true. That oftentimes you will see small companies that have breakthrough technologies, as soon as they are ready to go to market, they are targeted by larger competitors in the post-grant review process at the PTO.