Good Friday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. _____________________• Liberal Democrats introduced their “Green New Deal,” a sweeping resolution intended to redefine the national debate on climate change. The plan presents a grand strategy to eliminate carbon emissions, create jobs and combat economic inequality, though its legislative prospects are bleak in the foreseeable future. • The political tumult in Virginia widened, as the State Senate’s top Republican faced questions about racist photographs and slurs in a college yearbook he helped oversee, transforming the nearly week-old crisis into a bipartisan reckoning over personal conduct.

Source: New York Times February 08, 2019 05:07 UTC