While Congress is in recess this week, we’ll be watching negotiations on the infrastructure bill and presenting them to you in an evening briefing. Check in here to find out how the sausage-making is shaping up.
Continue reading “The Sausage Making: Some Dems Champing At The Bit For Legislative Win Before Worrisome Virginia Election”Report: Sinema Tells House Dems She Won’t Vote For Reconciliation Bill Until After BIF Is Passed
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) reportedly told House Democrats this week that she won’t support Democrats’ sweeping reconciliation package until the bipartisan infrastructure bill passes, according to Reuters.
Continue reading “Report: Sinema Tells House Dems She Won’t Vote For Reconciliation Bill Until After BIF Is Passed”Youngkin Ducks Jan 6 Salute Controversy
Here’s Virginia GOP Gov candidate Glenn Youngkin when asked this afternoon about the flag from the Jan 6th insurrection which supporters pledged allegiance to at Youngkin campaign rally last night.
Youngkin: “So to be clear I don’t think … if that … I wasn’t involved so I don’t know. but if that is the case then we shouldn’t pledge allegiance to that flag. and oh by the way I’ve been so clear there is no place for violence … none, none in America today.”
Here’s the video …
Continue reading “Youngkin Ducks Jan 6 Salute Controversy”Judge Bars Conspiratorial Colorado Clerk From Election Administration After Suspicious Leak
A Colorado judge has blocked Mesa County, Colorado Clerk Tina Peters from running the county’s elections this year — the result of a state lawsuit over Peters allowing an unauthorized person into a sensitive voting machine software update meeting, after which passwords and digital images of election software were leaked online.
Continue reading “Judge Bars Conspiratorial Colorado Clerk From Election Administration After Suspicious Leak”Jan. 6 Panel Opens Contempt Proceedings Against Bannon
Contempt proceedings against Stephen Bannon will begin on Tuesday, the House Jan. 6 Committee announced.
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Panel Opens Contempt Proceedings Against Bannon”Airline-Banned Anti-Mask GOPer Gets COVID, Predictably Treats It With Horse Pills
Alaska state Sen. Lora Reinbold (R), who has been banned from Alaska Airlines for refusing to wear a mask, announced earlier this week that she has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
Continue reading “Airline-Banned Anti-Mask GOPer Gets COVID, Predictably Treats It With Horse Pills”What Happened To Jeffrey Clark?
Jeffrey Bossert Clark, the former Trump DOJ official who sought to use the power of the federal government to block Biden’s win last year, received a subpoena on Wednesday from the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
Continue reading “What Happened To Jeffrey Clark?”Clyburn Demands Senate Nix Filibuster If New Voting Rights Bill Gets Blocked
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) on Thursday called on the Senate to do away with the filibuster if the new voting rights bill Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is set to bring to the floor next week is blocked.
Continue reading “Clyburn Demands Senate Nix Filibuster If New Voting Rights Bill Gets Blocked”No More Delay
There are reports this morning that Democrats are planning to punt some of the President’s BBB agenda into a 2022 reconciliation package. On its face that sounds awful. Big stuff gets harder to do, not easier, the closer you get to an election – especially one you think won’t go well. But this is actually a good thing. Or at least a necessary thing. It’s critical to get this legislative long march wrapped up, voted on and signed absolutely as soon as possible. I noted yesterday that I just don’t see a recognition of that urgency from the players on the Hill and the White House. Each day that goes by passage of any of the agenda gets less likely and the electoral consequences of this drawn out season of political impotence grows.
Continue reading “No More Delay”Schumer Announces Revival Of Stalled Voting Rights Push
The voting rights effort is alive! Sort of.
Continue reading “Schumer Announces Revival Of Stalled Voting Rights Push”