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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Mike Johnson have a deal on funding the government for the rest of the fiscal year. After months of House Republican chest-beating over funding ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 11:00 AM PST
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Congress has a few immediate jobs when it returns to work next week: meeting two funding deadlines in less than a month and averting government shutdowns; coming up with a budget for both 2024 and 2025; and passing a supplemental funding package with...
by Joan McCarter
133 comments
on Fri Jan 05, 2024 at 06:30 AM PST
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The Senate stayed up late Wednesday, passing a continuing resolution to keep funding government operations, 87-11. The legislation finances federal government operations at current spending levels, the strongest selling point for Democrats who...
by Joan McCarter
91 comments
on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 09:10 AM PST
with 147 Recommends
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Sorry for the brief hiatus, but between watching election returns, drinking cheap beer, and dodging that pesky coyote, the roadrunner has been busy. However, I was summoned by conscience to return to highlight an esoteric but revealing move made by a...
by Roadrunner65
93 comments
on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 11:47 PM PST
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Newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson emerged from the 22 days of chaos created by his colleagues as the last man they could stand to vote for. That landed him smack-dab in the center of the ...
by Joan McCarter
175 comments
on Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 02:30 PM PDT
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The House of Representatives was in recess Friday morning , with no bills scheduled for the floor, but with the threat of Saturday votes hanging over members. The Rules Committee is scheduled to ...
by Joan McCarter
90 comments
on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 09:30 AM PDT
with 339 Recommends
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Here we go again. It’s not enough they got him to start a bogus impeachment inquiry, now the bomb-throwing, hostage-taking far right want to defund our military. By a chintzy $120B out of the agreed-on $1.6T Omnibus. That’s like, 7% they want to...
by Tippy and Dad
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on Thu Sep 14, 2023 at 08:02 PM PDT
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The Republican-controlled House had two jobs to complete this week before taking off until Sept. 11. Two appropriations bills were slated to go to the floor and the House was supposed to spend the ...
by Joan McCarter
76 comments
on Thu Jul 27, 2023 at 01:42 PM PDT
with 256 Recommends
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House Republicans are staking their tiny majority on abortion in what they clearly believe is a secret, low-key way. They’re not giving up on a national abortion ban, which they began plotting the minute Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s decision...
by Joan McCarter
62 comments
on Mon Jul 24, 2023 at 12:05 PM PDT
with 141 Recommends
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Remember that time conservatives devoted approximately 92% of their free time to obsessing over the possibility—nay, certainty!—that one of the Teletubbies was a closeted gay man Pied Pipering Pixy Stix-besotted 2-year-olds into the Teletubbyland...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Wed Jul 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM PDT
with 422 Recommends
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Remember the old days of “settled law”? Remember when conventional wisdom complacently assured us that while abortion rights were systematically being chipped away, there was no possible way Republicans or the Supreme Court actually would overturn Roe...
by Joan McCarter
109 comments
on Fri Jul 14, 2023 at 08:37 AM PDT
with 221 Recommends
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First a huge thank you to Joan McCarter and Meteor Blades for repeatedly writing about aspects of this year’s FY 2024 appropriations battles, with a particular (but not exclusive focus) on the GOP attacks on environmental and clean energy programs and...
by JunglelandDan
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on Mon Jul 17, 2023 at 05:36 PM PDT
with 60 Recommends
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Congress has almost completed the first step in the arduous job assigned to them in the debt ceiling deal President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy struck last month. As a reward, they’re ...
by Joan McCarter
153 comments
on Sat Jun 24, 2023 at 07:30 AM PDT
with 331 Recommends
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If House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was expecting a thank you from the Freedom Caucus and other Republican nihilists for capitulating to them and agreeing to renege on the debt ceiling agreement he made ...
by Joan McCarter
72 comments
on Sat Jun 17, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
with 204 Recommends
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The House Appropriations Committee made it official this week, moving forward with massive funding cuts, giving in to the 11 Republicans in and allied with the Freedom Caucus, and reneging on the budget agreement House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made with...
by Joan McCarter
81 comments
on Fri Jun 16, 2023 at 06:40 AM PDT
with 165 Recommends
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The rebellion that shut down the House last week shows every sign of continuing this week, with no agreement yet announced between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the 11 nihilists whose tantrum ...
by Joan McCarter
125 comments
on Mon Jun 12, 2023 at 01:18 PM PDT
with 348 Recommends
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Four years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan told a House appropriations subcommittee that Chief Justice John Roberts was considering whether the court should adopt its own ethics code. “The chief justice is studying the question of whether...
by Joan McCarter
44 comments
on Tue Apr 04, 2023 at 02:30 PM PDT
with 132 Recommends
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I don’t watch the Sunday morning TV talk shows for numerous reasons, but a minor miracle happened and George Stephanopoulos asked Ohio Republican Congressman Dave Joyce about Trump’s latest comment that he was robbed in 2020 and the Constitution needs...
by Merlin196357
30 comments
on Sun Dec 04, 2022 at 02:26 PM PST
with 33 Recommends
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To a large extent the ability of Congress to address access to abortion is limited by the filibuster. Leaving aside questions of removing the filibuster or expanding the Supreme Court — congress can pass reconciliation bills on appropriations with a...
by motwor1
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on Sat Jun 25, 2022 at 05:22 AM PDT
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Remember "earmarks," aka "porkbarrel spending," officially known as "member-directed spending"? They've been a favorite target of both Democratic and Republican deficit peacocks to point out "wasteful spending" on the part of the other guy. Earmarks...
by Joan McCarter
86 comments
on Mon Feb 15, 2021 at 12:54 PM PST
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