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28 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Kevin Brady says he opposes $2,000 checks because it would go toward people paying down credit card debt or making “new purchases online at Wal-Mart, Best Buy or Amazon.”

Funny, how people spent money didn't seem to be a huge concern when Republicans passed their tax cut bill.
You know, I just remembered that the day House Republicans passed their tax bill — a bill that Brady was instrumental in writing — he was one of the many Republicans who couldn’t name the tax brackets.

Listen to interview. Read the story.

google.com/amp/s/m.huffpo…
The video with the interviews really is a trip.

Part 1 here:
And part 2:

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Matt Fuller Profile picture
12 Dec
I just went through the Twitters of all 126 House Republicans who signed on to that Texas lawsuit petition.

A few thoughts: [Thread]
The first takeaway is that the vast majority of these members — probably close to 100 — seem to have said nothing at all about the petition.

They didn’t note that they signed on, and they haven’t noted that the Supreme Court quickly rejected the case.
My best guess is that the majority of these Republicans would love to memory-hole the fact that they signed on to an effort to toss out the election results and disenfranchise millions of voters.

It’s simply another act of service for Trump to them.
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9 Sep
A Thom Tillis staffer told a a 3-time cancer survivor that buying health insurance is the same as buying a dress shirt.

The woman, Bev Veals, asked him to imagine his parents in her and her husband’s situation.

He told her his parents would “gladly die.” m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f…
This whole exchange is pretty informative, because the reality is this is the GOP position on health care: If you can’t afford it, you shouldn’t get it.

It really is just like a dress shirt to them. And some staffer got in trouble for telling the truth.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f…
Tillis hasn’t apologized to Bev, though they’ve apparently “reprimanded” the staffer.

Bev’s husband theorized that Tillis hasn’t apologized because he doesn’t have an answer for what they should do. His position was accurately described by the staffer.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f…
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21 Mar
I got a Coronavirus test just now. And I learned a few things.

A short thread:
To start, one of the reasons it takes so long to get the results back is because we have to send the swabs to testing centers.

For DC, that means freezing your swab and sending it to North Carolina, where they’re already backed up.
Another thing I learned is that, to re-enter society after having Covid-19, you’re supposed to have two negative Coronavirus tests.
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31 Mar 19
Here’s what you need to know when someone claims the GOP health care bill — the AHCA — covered people with pre-existing conditions:

(Thread)
The AHCA allowed insurers to take into account “health status” when setting premiums. That means they could charge more for pre-existing conditions.

So while insurers couldn’t *deny* sick people, they absolutely could charge them more — an unaffordable amount more.
Under the bill, states that wanted to allow insurers to charge those people more would have to set up a “high-risk pool,” where sick people could get coverage.

The problem is those high-risk pools are notoriously underfunded, so people with pre-existing conditions pay more.
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15 Mar 19
I don't want to turn this horrible shooting into a finger-pointing game, but I was struck by similarities between what the New Zealand shooter wrote and some of the things current Members of Congress say about immigration.

So, a thread:
Here's the shooter talking about the "invasion" of immigration.
And here's Louioe Gohmert talking about how immigration is an "invasion" at levels unseen since D-Day.
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10 Feb 19
We just lost another good Congressman: Walter Jones.

Years ago, I wondered who the Congressman was who crossed party lines the most. By a long shot, it was Jones. He voted for every Dem motion that benefitted veterans, and he was happy to pay the price.

rollcall.com/news/jones_wil…
We had a long chat about his career one night, and at some point, he started talking about why he cared about veterans.

Through tears, Jones told me he came to Congress and discovered that his grandfather was gassed in the Argonne Forest in WWI and eventually killed himself.
Walter Jones famously changed his mind about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he was very open for years that his biggest regret in life was voting to authorize those wars.

Republicans wouldn’t let him have an Armed Services subcommittee chairmanship because he spoke out.
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