It's Thursday, April 14, and Day 61 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell laid down his Supreme Court blockade: no meetings, no hearings, no votes on his replacement, and Day 29 since President Obama named Merrick Garland to be Scalia's replacement. What's the Senate doing today instead of considering the Supreme Court nominee? It's Thursday, so they're trying to finish work for the week. They agreed to end debate on a key amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization, and may or may not take more votes today.
They also decided in some backroom, away from the C-SPAN cameras, that they just can't help Flint and other cities with serious water crises right now, because the Senate's new Ted Cruz—Mike Lee, Republican from Utah and conservatives' dream Supreme Court justice—doesn't want them to. That's what your Senate is not doing today. Oh, and they're not doing anything about Garland's nomination, either.
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