#Congress

Congress moving fast to pass a COVID relief bill. Financial Services Cmte will markup its bill next week with: $25B rental assistance. This includes: $19.05B ERA; $5B housing vouchers; $100m
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If there is ANYTHING that should be learned from 2016, it’s that you can’t make preemptive outcome-based decisions about protecting national security, because that decision itself affects the outcome! (See,
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It's on. Day 2 of the Trump Impeachment Trial 2.0. February 10, 2021. We will have a dinner break at 6 p.m.1/ Manager @RepRaskin says this is about truth. This
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Situation Update, Jan 2nd – The Big Reveal … How Trump will change history on January 6thToday’s Situation Update for January 2nd covers the “big reveal” that President Trump has
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I continue to believe the Neustadt interpretation of Trump is the correct one: this is a weak president in in danger of a complete failed presidency. Today's cave-in speech on
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If you want someone who will wait and see and uncritically praise the fucking government you should not be following an anarcho-communist who thinks borders are violence and the Democratic
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Using the Lexington Concordance (http://www.lexconcord.org/ ) site, you can search to find how many times a certain keyword has appeared in a member of Congress's floor speeches—or at least, how many
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At some point we should probably accept that while not every batshit plan discussed on social media will come to fruition, some of them aren’t just shitposting. Some of them
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I’m testifying Tuesday on need for comprehensive reform to nation’s disaster housing recovery & rebuilding. Finishing up written testimony today and outraged again at all the ways we fail low-income
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So McConnell is saying he'll only increase payouts to normal Americans only if Democrats agree to torpedo Facebook's business model? Uh. Yes please. Don't listen to anyone who says repeal
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I give props to Nicole Hannah Jones for actively downplaying the history of subjugation of other minority groups as most people into sectarian racial ideology are too chicken to do
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Montana's state legislature just passed a law CRIMINALIZING healthcare for trans kids. Many states under GOP control are considering similar bills. These are meant to stop trans people from being
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1/ Thank you to Team Biden for planning a thoughtful, inspirational and dignified Inaugural event that celebrated a fresh start and respected the moment. Thanks to the members of Congress
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Trump’s White House taking the vaccine tomorrow is a symbol of a larger problem.I’m beginning to hear of privileged people who are like jumping. 1/ Hearing that companies involved in
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Good piece by @jacklgoldsmith on #SolarWindsHackI agree with his main points.But I disagree with some of his analysis, which conflates espionage with far more malicious cyber operations. Vital distinctions in
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Bret Baier got Hawley to admit on Fox that what he's doing has no chance of making Trump president He drilled him repeatedly and Hawley just kept saying "this is
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