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After a lackluster jobs report in September 2021, the latest news on employment gives Americans plenty to cheer about ahead of the holiday season.
Continue reading “Wages Up As Americans Are Encouraged Back To Work And Into The Office”With the Florida governor’s race more than a year away, Thursday brought an early sign that national Democrats may be feeling skittish about their prospects of unseating incumbent Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Continue reading “Will National Dems Target DeSantis in 2022 … Or No?”Good rundown on where today’s expected House votes fit into the overall legislative picture: Chad knows his stuff. Where it gets interesting is down around 12) in the thread. Short version is whatever version of the reconciliation bill passes the House today will get altered in the Senate and have to come back to the House, where it will likely get shoved down the throats of Dem members. That will happen in late November or early December. House members are used to getting dictated to by the Senate. Doesn’t mean the Senate version won’t pass the House. Just means there’s a long way to go even if Pelosi gets all her votes lined up today.
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
In newly aired deposition videos obtained by CNN, Rudy Giuliani and pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell admitted under oath that they hadn’t bothered to check if their conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and voting tech companies were true when they repeatedly regurgitated them in public.
Jenna Ryan, the infamous Jan. 6 insurrectionist/real estate agent who flew to D.C. via private jet before storming the Capitol (and livestreamed while inside the building), was handed a 60-day prison sentence yesterday after pleading guilty to one misdemeanor.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the chair of the House Jan. 6 select committee, said yesterday that he’s signed 20 subpoenas that could go out as soon as today.
Democrats are on track to pass both the $1.75 reconciliation bill and the bipartisan infrastructure bill (BIF) on Friday.
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has convened a second grand jury to hear evidence in his criminal investigation against the Trump Organization, according to the Washington Post.
At least eight professors at the University of Florida have been banned from testifying in lawsuits against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) anti-mask mandate policies or the voting restrictions he signed into law.
As winter darkness looms ahead, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) is pushing for a permanent Daylight Saving Time via the Sunshine Protection Act, the bipartisan bill she co-sponsored with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
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The House is back to a will they/won’t they situation, trying to determine whether the chamber can pass both the bipartisan infrastructure and reconciliation bills by the end of this week.
It’ll require some intense marshaling of members. Of the House progressives, Rep. Pramilia Jayapal (D-WA) said she wants a promise from President Joe Biden that he has all 50 senators committed to voting for reconciliation before they vote on the bipartisan bill; other members of the caucus want a full Senate reconciliation vote first. A group of moderates including Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NY) wants 72 hours to read the completed reconciliation bill, and a CBO or a JCT score before the House votes on the package.
Meanwhile, the Senate is stuck in a weird limbo, tying up the last remaining policy loose ends while generally moving at the speed of Manchin.
It’s a predictable move for the red state governor with 2024 aspirations and one who has built his national profile on, essentially, pretending that COVID is just Not A Thing in Florida, despite the state’s staggering death rates from the virus.
Just hours after the White House’s new vaccine mandate officially went into effect – formalizing the Biden administration’s earlier promises to require that employers with 100 or more workers must mandate vaccines or ensure their workers undergo weekly COVID testing – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his intention to sue over the new rule. The vaccination and weekly negative testing rules for 100-plus employee workplaces will be enforced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and will impact about 84 million employees around the U.S., according to the White House.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: DeSantis Sues Over Biden’s OSHA Vaccine Mandate”All in all, things went well in court today for the Jan. 6 committee as it tries to enforce a subpoena for Trump presidential records. But there was one moment when the judge missed the significance of scope of the document requests, and the House lawyer didn’t bail her out. Josh Kovensky explains why the committee’s inquiry needs to start with what Trump was doing back in April 2020. Super important.
The Department of Justice on Thursday sued the state of Texas over some of its new voting restrictions, alleging they violate the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act.
Continue reading “BREAKING: Justice Department Sues Texas Over New Voting Restrictions”Midway through Thursday’s hearing on whether former President Trump can block a subpoena issued by the House Jan. 6 Committee for records from his administration, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan had a question: Why was the panel asking for records going all the way back to April 2020?
Continue reading “In Trump’s Fight Over A Jan. 6 Subpoena, The Judge Missed A Crucial Point”
