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1 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Sen. Rob Portman, who is in line to be chairman of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee if the GOP retains the Senate, says he plans to hold a hearing for Neera Tanden to be the next White House budget director.

But Portman called on Biden to withdraw the pick.
“They should reconsider her nomination given her partisan background and her very liberal background for this particular job," Portman said of Tanden
I asked why it was different given that the GOP-led Senate confirmed Mick Mulvaney -- a former member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus-- to OMB, Portman said: "It might not have been had there been Democratic control of the Senate."
Portman said he's objecting to Tanden because "members are coming to me, and saying that this nominee really concerns me."
Portman's panel has joint jurisdiction over the nomination with Budget panel, chaired by Lindsey Graham under a Senate GOP majority. Graham has been non-committal about moving forward with a hearing on Tanden. "Let's see what happens with the Electoral College,” Graham said

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3 Dec
GOP senators want nominees who could win their support, want consultation, and not yet committing to moving his picks quickly
Elizabeth Warren told me Biden should pick “strong progressives,” while AOC says Biden should get “more aggressive” if Ds take GA cnn.com/2020/12/02/pol…
Bob Menendez has urged Jim Risch to hold hearings in early January for nominees under their panel's jurisdiction: Tony Blinken to head State and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as UN ambassador. But Risch has not committed to that, and he’s refusing to answer questions about his views
Chuck Grassley, in line to chair Judiciary, said that Biden should pick an attorney general nominee who will get "better treatment than what Sessions got...It seems to me [it should be someone who has] got bipartisan support. And that wasn't the way Sessions was treated."
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29 Nov
Obama’s former economic adviser after being asked if Dems should take a smaller stimulus deal, which Pelosi has resisted. “So if they have to accept half a loaf, then they should accept half a loaf. And then let's try to get another half of a loaf.” cnn.com/videos/tv/2020…
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18 Nov
GOP Sen. Rob Portman, a member of Senate Homeland Security, defends the work of Chris Krebs after Trump fired the DHS official for asserting that the elections were secure and fair

"I know Chris, I've worked well with him. I think he's a real professional," Portman told me.
Portman suggested "there's a little disconnect" about what Krebs' main points were: That there was a lack of successful cyberattacks on election systems. "He was not talking about fraud.” (Krebs did though push back on some of Trump's unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud.)
“I was on two calls with Chris 10 days before the election with a bipartisan group of senators," Portman recalled. "He was always responsible, and helpful."
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17 Nov
An interesting scene on the Senate floor when several GOP senators congratulated Kamala Harris (most Rs still siding with Trump in his fight over election.)

Sens. Tim Scott, Mike Rounds, James Lankford all congratulated her, as did Ben Sasse. Lindsey Graham gave her a fist bump
“How is the food fight behind you in California?” Lankford said to Harris, an apparent reference to the effort to fill her Senate seat.
Asked about his fist bump to Kamala Harris, Sen. Lindsey Graham told me this: “Just saying hello - I haven’t a seen in her in a while. If it works out and they make it, I told her I wish her well and try to work where we can. We will know here in a month or so or less.”
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16 Nov
Asked if he was trying to pressure the Georgia secretary of state to toss legal ballots, Lindsey Graham told us: “That’s ridiculous.”

GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger responds on @CNNSitRoom: “The implication is look hard and see how many ballots you can throw.”
Graham on his conversation: “What I'm trying to find out was, how do you verify signatures on mail-in ballots in these states..So when you mail in a ballot, you got to have some way to verify that the signature on the envelope actually matches the person who requested the ballot”
Asked why as the senator from South Carolina, he's calling Georgia's secretary of state, Graham told me: "Because it affects the whole nation," adding he's "very interested" in the results.

Graham said he didn’t talk to Trump about his conversation.
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5 Nov
On a caucus call, Pelosi is giving a positive assessment of the outcome of Tuesday's election, despite House Democratic losses that likely mean she will hold a smaller majority in the new Congress.

"We did not win every battle but we won the war," she said, per source
Pelosi told her caucus that Tuesday was a “big win” for the party. But she’s explaining the D losses by noting that 2020 was a more difficult cycle for some House Dems with Trump on ballot, particularly ones in deep red districts who in 2018 when Trump wasn't running, per sources
Rep. Cheri Bustos, who chairs DCCC and has faced criticism from Dems, blamed bad polling for the outcome and for the bullish predictions headed into election day, per two sources.

"Voters looked more like 2016 than projected," Bustos told Democrats.
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