#Senate

1) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to a Possible COVID Deal Today.Lawmakers and aides toiled deep into the night in hopes of securing a coronavirus package. A deal appears to be at
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I've seen folks post about their frustration at Senate Democrats for not filibustering alongside Bernie. Here's why they aren't, in a thread no one will read: We've got 6 days
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1. As someone who has been a conservative activist my entire life, including 1976 Reagan campaign and Tea Party movement, as well as the 2010 conservative challenges to RINO candidates
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January 6th 2021 is pending. I urge Mitch McConnell (@senatemajldr) to walk back his remarks & bring forth a US Senator to object to Biden’s electoral certificates. If US Senate
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New: Why arent progressives scared re: Biden/Manchin/Sinema statements on filibuster? 1) they think holdouts need to show it's a last resort 2) Likeliest scenario ties ending filibuster to popular legislation
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Georgians:Stand UP for TrumpStand DOWN for January runoffKemp/Raffensberger already have your votes.If you stand down for the runoff, the establishment that played you will panic.Georgia will HAVE to conduct forensic
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Republican Senators Tom Cotton (Arkansas), Ted Cruz (Texas) and Josh Hawley (Missouri) are among the 20 individuals the President has added to his list of potential US Supreme Court nominees.https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1303781819775680
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A couple of things @juliehdavis told @mikiebarb about the filibuster on The Daily yesterday worth flagging. The filibuster was framed as the "mechanism for stopping a senator from going on
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OK — this is a thread about the Electoral College process on Capitol Hill. I put it in Playbook PM. Tomorrow is my last edition of Playbook PM. IN CASE
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With only 13 days left of Trump's presidency, why is it important to impeach? A short thread 1/7 The first is to protect the safety and integrity of our country
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THREAD: a point worth addressing is "how would/should VP respond if GOP retained its majority, then voted to suspend/amend a Senate Rule depriving the presiding officer of power." Paragraph 6
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One of the people I thank in the acknowledgements of my new book on the Senate reference (coming this April! https://www.ubcpress.ca/constitutional-pariah) is @acoyne, who in past Twitter chats and with
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OMIGAWD Eli Lake has achieved new levels of hilarity!!!!https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-18/senate-report-on-russia-implicates-more-than-the-trump-campaign"Sure, Konstantin Kilimnik was a Russian spy, but not the kind
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I don’t think I’ll be able to livetweet Trump’s rally against the Constitution this evening; but I’m curious if he is going to actually support or quasi-unintentionally oppose the R
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BREAKING: @forensicnewsnet can reveal that sanctioned Russian oligarch/Putin ally Oleg Deripaska, via his lawyers in Moscow, has an active contract with the spyware firm OSY Technologies - the same company
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An ICYMI thread Last night, Ohio's senior U.S. senator, @SenSherrodBrown (D), was called "a complete ass" by his colleague Sen. @tedcruz (R-Texas).The reason?Brown asked @SenDanSullivan (R-Alaska) to keep his mask
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