Andrew Giuliani, who proclaimed last month that he is “a politician out of the womb” when announcing his long-shot bid for the Republican nomination in New York’s gubernatorial race, painted his father’s suspension from practicing law in the state as a partisan attack. Continue reading “Giuliani’s Son Uses Dad’s Law License Suspension To Boost Long-Shot Bid For NY Gov”
Senate Progressives Determined Not To Get Hosed By Moderates On Infrastructure
Senate Democrats expressed confidence in interviews Thursday that they would not lend their votes to the scaled-down, bipartisan infrastructure deal only to be left in the dust on its much larger and much more progressive reconciliation counterpart.
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That’s Good Enough for Me
Does Biden trust GOP Senators to follow through? “They’ve given me their word. Where I come from, that’s good enough for me.”
More here from the press conference.
And from Senate progs, nope we’re not going to get hoodwinked here.
Biden Commits To Bipartisan Deal On Hard Infrastructure
President Biden threw his support behind an infrastructure agreement reached by a bipartisan group of senators on Thursday, announcing in the Rose Garden that “we have a deal.”
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Where Things Stand: Some ‘Accountability’
We’ve had a front row seat to Rudy Giuliani’s descent into Trumpy madness over the last several years, falling from his pedestal as America’s Mayor to the dripping, desperate “legal” face of Trump’s big lie.
Once the mayor of New York City, now temporarily banned from practicing law in New York state, Giuliani has had a rough one, brought on entirely by himself.
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Biden Says He Has a Deal
We’ve struck a deal. A group of senators – five Democrats and five Republicans – has come together and forged an infrastructure agreement that will create millions of American jobs.
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 24, 2021
This seems to be the framework I noted below: small bipartisan deal on hard infrastructure. The rest of the Biden plan passed through reconciliation.
Pelosi Lays Down the Law
We seem to be moving toward a framework in which a relatively small ‘hard’ infrastructure bill is passed through the Senate with Republican support. Then most of the rest of Biden’s two part infrastructure package (The American Jobs Plan and the American Family Plan) will be passed through a reconciliation bill which will get no Republican support and pass the Senate with 50 votes. There’s a lot of downside to that – not least of which is that it allows Republicans to take credit for the most popular stuff and creating a second bill with a lot of social spending and a lot of new taxes.
Pelosi Announces Select Committee To Probe Capitol Attack After GOP Tanked Commission
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced on Thursday that House Democrats will form a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection that then-President Trump helped incite, following Senate Republicans’ deployment of the filibuster to kill the bill that would have created a bipartisan commission to do the same work. Continue reading “Pelosi Announces Select Committee To Probe Capitol Attack After GOP Tanked Commission”
Rudy’s Law License Suspended For 2020 Election Subversion
Rudy Giuliani’s license to practice law in New York has been suspended, a result of the former New York City mayor leading the crusade to subvert the 2020 election on ex-President Donald Trump’s behalf.
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Pelosi: No Vote On Infrastructure Deal Until Dem Priorities Passed Through Reconciliation
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made clear on Thursday that Congress will not let Republicans yank a bipartisan infrastructure bill away at the last minute.