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"We have to act as a nation," Biden says of climate change. "It shouldn't be so bad that millions of Americans live in the shadow of an orange sky and are left asking, is doomsday here?"
"It's happening everywhere. It's happening now. And it affects us all," Biden says of climate change.
"Donald Trump's climate denial may not have caused these fires and record floods and record hurricanes. But if he gets a second term, these hellish events will continue to become more common, more devastating and more deadly," Biden says.
Biden flips Trump's warnings to the suburbs: "If we have four more years of Trump's climate denial, how many suburbs will be burned in wildfires? How many suburban neighborhoods will have been flooded out? How many suburbs will have been blown away in superstorms?"

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Dec 7, 2021
President Biden has accepted Saule Omarova's request that her name be withdrawn for the nomination for Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, per a statement from him.
Biden: "Saule would have brought invaluable insight and perspective to our important work on behalf of the American people. But unfortunately, from the very beginning of her nomination, Saule was subjected to inappropriate personal attacks that were far beyond the pale."
Omarova in her withdrawal letter: "I deeply value President Biden’s trust in my abilities and remain firmly committed to the Administration’s vision ... At this point in the process, however, it is no longer tenable for me to continue as a Presidential nominee."
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Nov 19, 2021
President Biden’s health assessment notes two notable changes since his last report was released in 2019, more throat clearing and a change in his gait. His physician’s letter concludes the reasons for those changes were fairly minor issues. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
Biden’s “gait appears to be perceptibly stiffer and less fluid than it has been in the past,” his doctor notes. Neurological exam found “no signs of stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's or ascending lateral sclerosis” but did ID “a mild peripheral neuropathy in both feet.”
“A combination of significant spinal arthritis, post-fracture ‘lim and compensation’ and a mild sensory peripheral neuropathy of the feet are the explanation for the subtle gait changes which I was investigating,” Biden’s physician says.
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Oct 14, 2021
President Biden’s commission considering Supreme Court reforms appears to have consensus in support of term limits for justices and says expanding the court is legal but may not be wise. Also writes positively of creating a code of conduct for justices. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
WH’s SCOTUS commission calls for more transparency around recusals and notes observers have widespread support for barring justices, their spouses and dependent spouses from owning individual stocks. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“This was not even close to being worth the wait. The paralysis-by-analysis reflected here is exactly what you would expect from a commission made up mostly of academics, including several diehard conservatives who are fully content with the status quo,” @brianefallon says.
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Aug 6, 2021
NEWS: Biden administration is extending pandemic relief for student debt through January 31, 2022. The administration says this is the FINAL extension of the freeze of fed loan payments, 0% interest rate, pause on collections of defaulted loans. w/
@JanetLorin on @TheTerminal
(deleted tweet from a few mins ago in which I forgot that Jan. 2021 is in the past)
People familiar with the decision say the administration's goal with this move, which they insist is really, truly the final extension, is to give borrowers and loan servicers time to prepare for the repayments, interest and collections to begin again.
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Jun 1, 2021
"The events we speak of today took place 100 years ago and yet I'm the first president in 100 years to ever come to Tulsa" to acknowledge the massacre on Black people, Biden says.
"Just because history is silent it does not mean that it did not take place," Biden says. "And while darkness can hide much, it erases nothing."
After pausing for moment of silence to remember the Greenville dead mid-speech, Biden says: "My fellow Americans, this was not a riot, this was a massacre."
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May 27, 2021
Sen. Capito and three other Republican senators roll out their new infrastructure counter offer to the White House: $928 billion. It includes new net spending of at least $257 billion, per @elwasson.
@elwasson The GOP's offers over baseline spending:
$91 billion for roads and bridges
$48 billion for water infrastructure
$25 billion for airports
$65 billion for broadband
$22 billion for freight and passenger rail
$6 billion for water storage in the West
@elwasson Compare the $257 billion in new money in the new GOP offer to the $225 billion the WH said was in the initial GOP offer.
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