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One of the challenges facing Democrats in the upcoming tax "reform" fight, is that the stakes of tax policy can feel abstract. With Obamacare repeal, progressives had little trouble illustrating the grave consequences of the GOP's reactionary agenda: Millions of people would lose their insurance; nonaffluent cancer patients would be priced out of chemotherapy; and severely ill babies would hit their "lifetime limits." By contrast, it's hard to tell a truly harrowing story about the repeal of the state and local tax deduction.

Two US representatives want nonconsensual condom removal — known as "stealthing" — to be classified as rape and are pushing for a hearing to learn more about the practice and its repercussions.

Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna, from California, and Carolyn Maloney, from New York, sent a letter Wednesday to the House Judiciary Committee asking its members to address the issue.

Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna of California and Carolyn Maloney of New York sent a letter on Wednesday requesting the House judiciary committee convene a hearing addressing nonconsensual condom removal, more commonly known as "stealthing."

The legislators are raising the issue in hope that the public can better understand the scope of this problem and examine any potential legal remedies to it.

It's called "stealthing," and it's been labeled as "rape-adjacent," but now two lawmakers want it to be classified as rape according to federal law.

Nonconsensual condom removal during sex is the latest expression of some men's sexual aggression. Then Yale Law student and current civil rights attorney Alexandra Brodsky brought the issue to national attention in April with the publication of her paper, "Rape-adjacent: Imagining legal responses to nonconsensual condom removal."

Yemen continues to suffer in silence as the world turns away from its ongoing misery. Despite two and a half years of brutal war, the average American remains oblivious to the inconvenient truth that the United States has been helping Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates destroy a sovereign country that posed a threat to no one.

Two federal lawmakers say "stealthing" — the act of secretly removing a condom during sex — is a form of sexual assault that should be addressed by Congress.

Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., asked leaders of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to hold a hearing on the "emerging" phenomenon, which they called "disgraceful" and "incredibly dangerous" in a joint letter.

Two US legislators are making a push for Congress to classify "stealthing" as rape.

On Wednesday, two Democratic members of Congress — Ro Khanna of California and Carolyn Maloney of New York — sent a letter, obtained by Buzzfeed, to the House Judiciary Committee requesting its members hold a hearing in order to better understand and discuss the legal actions victims can take.

If one takes the White House's word for it, tax reform is all about a single goal—helping the middle class, not the rich.

Gary Cohn, the White House's chief economic adviser, says the president's tax cut is "purely aimed at middle-class families." Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, promised Congress that tax reform wouldn't benefit the rich. House Speaker Paul Ryan says the plan's "entire purpose" is to lower middle-class taxes.