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Jan 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
“That’s not true,” Susan Collins said several times on the floor, shaking her head when Schiff cited a news report saying WH warned senators that a vote against Trump means “your head will be on a pike.” Risch also said aloud: “That’s not true.” Cotton laughed when Schiff said it
Sen. Barasso said Schiff "offended every Republican senator" and that no Republican had been told that, referring to the CBS report
“He was doing fine with moral courage until he got to the head on the pike. That's where he lost me,” Murkowksi said, per @jeffzeleny. “He’s a good orator you got to give him that ... He was moving right along ...and then he got to a couple places and it was just unnecessary.”
Susan Collins: “Not only have I never heard the ‘head on the pike’ line but also I know of no Republican Senator who has been threatened in any way by anyone in the Administration.”

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Nov 20
Asked Speaker Johnson about Trump’s post about Dems’ ‘seditious behavior’ and about that being ‘punishable by death,” Speaker Johnson takes no issue with Trump’s statements and criticizes Democrats’ rhetoric as “wildly inappropriate.”
Johnson just expanded and said this of Trump’s comments: “The words that the president chose are not the ones that I would use. Okay. Obviously, I don't this these are crimes punishable by death or any of that.”
“But what the point that is that we need to emphasize here is that members of Congress in the Senate and House should not be telling troops to disobey orders. It is dangerous. It damages our military and our national security, and I can't even believe that this is a controversy”
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Nov 9
New - In major breakthrough, key Senate Ds signaling a willingness to vote to reopen government, per sources. Assuming they get provisions to reinstate fired federal workers. Emerging deal would not include extension of ACA subsidies but would guarantee a vote in Senate on issue
Still unclear if this will get 60 votes. But lots of signs it’s moving in that direction. First procedural vote could happen as soon as tonight.
Dems will meet tonight to discuss. Will see if the caucus rebels against it and changes the trajectory of it.
But as of now, several Senate D appropriators and moderates think they’ve got a good funding package and are winning the argument on health care, per sources
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May 14
New — GOP Sen. Josh Hawley attacks Medicaid cuts in House GOP’s ‘big beautiful bill’ and says it must change to become law

“This is real Medicaid benefit cuts. I can't support that. No Republican should support that. We're the party of the working class. We need to act like it.”
“No, I'm not going to support this bill from the House in this form. I think that's clear. It's got to change before it can pass the Senate," Hawley said.

Hawley backs work requirements but argued other provisions laid out in House's plan go "much, much, much further than that."
Hawley says he’s open to higher taxes on wealthy taxpayers, something Trump has voiced support for.

"I'm fine with that…Bottom line is, the focus ought to be working people.”
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May 6
New — Thom Tillis tells us he’s informed the WH he will NOT support Ed Martin to be the next US attorney for DC. Cites Jan. 6. That could derail the nomination.
Asked Tillis about his Monday meeting with Martin, and he said: “I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the building on January the 6th, and that's probably where most of the friction was.”
“If Mr. Martin were being put forth as a US Attorney for any district except the district where January 6 happened, the protest happened, I'd probably support him, but not in this district,” he said
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Jan 21
Spoke to Senate Majority Leader John Thune about the J6 pardons Trump gave out, including to those who attacked police.

“We’re not looking backwards, we’re looking forward,” he said, while contending the 1,000-plus pardons were not blanket pardons.

“I think they were case-by-case.”

Biden “opened the door” to pardons, Thune argued, saying that the former president engaged in the “most massive use of the pardon power that we've seen in history.”
Sen. Susan Collins said she hadn’t yet reviewed the J6 pardons. “I don't know whether there were pardons given to individuals who assaulted police officers," she said, "or whether there were pardons given to people who damaged property, who rummaged through desks, who broke windows in the Capitol. I disagree with those pardons if they were given."
Sen. Tommy Tuberville said he was "100%" for "everyone" of the pardons, adding of the rioters in prison that "they've been there long enough."
 
Pressed by reporters that some of those who were pardoned assaulted police officers, "No, that's not acceptable. But I didn't see it,” Tuberville said.
 
Asked him if he doesn’t believe police officers were beaten, Tuberville said, “I don't know whether I don't believe, because I didn't see it. Now, if I see it, I would believe it, but I didn't see that video.”
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Sep 24, 2024
New — Joe Manchin, a staunch defender of the filibuster, tells us he WON’T endorse Kamala Harris now over her vow to gut the filibuster to codify Roe.

“Shame on her," Manchin, who is retiring at year's end, said in the Capitol. "She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy. It's the only thing that keeps us talking and working together. If she gets rid of that, then this would be the House on steroids."

Now that Harris has vowed to gut the filibuster on this issue, Manchin said he wouldn't back her for president.

"That ain't going to happen," he said. "I think that basically can destroy our country and my country is more important to me than any one person or any one person's ideology...I think it's the most horrible thing."
Manchin signaled just a couple weeks ago that he could endorse Harris but changed his mind after she told Wisconsin Public Radio: “We should eliminate the filibuster for Roe.”

cnn.com/2024/09/24/pol…
Asked by @tedbarrettcnn about Harris’ previous support for gutting the filibuster, Manchin said: “Well, she said she supported banning fracking too, and she changed that. I was hoping she would change this."
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