🇺🇸 Discussion: Congress, The Senate, The House of Representatives - Part I

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Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement

Cruz claims grant program is “boondoggle,” urges Biden admin to halt activities.

arstechnica.com

 

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Better keep it up. We're running out of time.

Trump will probably just appoint as many conservative judges as he can at the first opportunity, though.

 

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Bernie Sanders Lost Vote to Block Arms for Israel, Says U.S. Is “Funding the Starvation of Children in Gaza”

Bernie Sanders said the U.S. is "funding the starvation of children in Gaza," but his bid to block arms for Israel failed in the Senate.

theintercept.com

 

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Moderate House Democrats Have A Message To Their Party: A Little Humility, Please

For moderate House Democrats, the post-mortem conclusions about what happened Nov. 5 come down to being humble, authentic and willing to listen.

www.huffpost.com

 

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Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens funding cuts to sanctuary cities and NPR

Speaking on Fox News, Georgia lawmaker said mayors and governors would have to explain why they deserve funding if they ‘harbor illegal criminal aliens’

www.independent.co.uk

 

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MTG Calls America 'Spoiled,' Threatens to Defund NPR and 'Toilets in Africa'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to investigate “every government department, program, grant programs, contracts” to identify what she deems waste.

www.rollingstone.com

People like her just live to hate.

 

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Stalemate in Congress causes growing backlog of emergency aid loan applications in Helene-devastated North Carolina

Helene ransacked western North Carolina on Sept. 27, leaving a path of devastation, death and an economic calamity from which the state will need years to recover.

www.cbsnews.com

 

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Congress will have a record-setting number of Black members in its ranks next year

The Congressional Black Caucus, with 62 Democratic members, plans to act as a counterweight to the Trump administration, says Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens funding cuts to sanctuary cities and NPR

Speaking on Fox News, Georgia lawmaker said mayors and governors would have to explain why they deserve funding if they ‘harbor illegal criminal aliens’

www.independent.co.uk

She must have fallen on her head....

 

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What Sherrod Brown says went wrong in his Senate race – and for Democrats | CNN Politics

For more on Sherrod Brown’s Senate defeat, watch CNN’s “Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju” this Sunday at 8 a.m. ET and 11 a.m ET.

amp.cnn.com

 

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Elizabeth Warren warns that Trump’s transition “threatens the American public”

And as the New York Times reports, we don't know who's funding the transition team.

www.motherjones.com

 

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Private-sector paydays threaten Mike Johnson's House majority​

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www.axios.com

House Republicans' hunt for cold, hard cash threatens to further complicate Speaker Mike Johnson's majority — which is on track to be the narrowest since the Great Depression.

 

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Private-sector paydays threaten Mike Johnson's House majority​

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www.axios.com

Good! Hope they all leave!

 

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US senators urge Fifa to spurn Saudi 2034 World Cup bid over human rights

Two United States senators urged Fifa on Monday not to endorse a Saudi World Cup bid in a decision seen as inevitable despite the kingdom’s record on human rights

www.theguardian.com

 

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Lauren Boebert follows Matt Gaetz on to Cameo – then apparently thinks better of it

Ethics experts questioned whether the paid video app might violate rules against sitting members of Congress receiving money for media appearances

www.independent.co.uk

 

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How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress

The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the power to punish perceived foes.

www.propublica.org

 

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Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests Biden ‘trying to start a nuclear war’ to thwart Trump

MAGA Republican baselessly claimed the president is seeking to sabotage his successor’s incoming administration by dramatically escalating conflict in Europe

www.independent.co.uk

 

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AOC and the Question of Defining Antisemitism

The controversial “IHRA definition” of antisemitism must be revised if it is not to become a tool for silencing legitimate criticisms of Israel.

www.currentaffairs.org

 

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Trump set to take office with razor-thin House GOP majority

Donald Trump is set to take office in January with a razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives that offers Republicans barely any margin of error.

abcnews.go.com

 

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Ron DeSantis slows the process to fill Marco Rubio's Senate seat as pressure from Trump world grows

Consideration centers on whether to appoint Lara Trump to fill the Senate seat from Florida being left by Rubio, who has been tapped for secretary of state, but other names are on the shortlist.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Is Bernie Sanders Launching a Third Party? 'Not Right Now, No' | Common Dreams

"Real change in this country will come about when an organized working class leads the fight for justice," the Vermont senator said in a new interview.

www.commondreams.org

 

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Casten introduces new privileged resolution to force release of Gaetz report

Democrat Casten introduced an updated privileged resolution to try to force the bipartisan Ethics Committee to release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz.

abcnews.go.com

 

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Casten introduces new privileged resolution to force release of Gaetz report

Democrat Casten introduced an updated privileged resolution to try to force the bipartisan Ethics Committee to release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz.

abcnews.go.com

What difference does it make now? He's gone.

 

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Henry Confirmed as Federal Judge in U.S. District Court for Eastern PA

Becomes 11th Pennsylvanian to be nominated to the bench by Biden and confirmed by the Senate

www.politicspa.com