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29 Dec, 8 tweets, 3 min read
FOLLOW HERE through the day: Fate of $2,000 stimulus checks proposal, backed by Trump, is in McConnell’s hands washingtonpost.com/powerpost/stim…
Appointment @cspan viewing at noon: McConnell remarks, Schumer UC request on House bill; plus Sanders & Markey ready to block NDAA action to get checks vote.
McConnell now speaking, starting with NDAA. He is guaranteeing an override: "Soon this important legislation will be passed into law." c-span.org/congress/?cham…
McConnell on CHECKS, SECT. 230, ELECTION FRAUD: "Those are the three important subjects the President has linked together. This week the Senate will begin a process to bring these three priorities into focus."
Upshot: McConnell is not yet laying out the exact path forward but intends to keep the three issues linked. This bodes ill for discrete action on $2,000 checks, but it is still possible.
UPDATED STORY w/ @TonyRomm: McConnell blocks quick action on $2,000 stimulus checks, links them with other Trump asks. Meanwhile, GOP support for bigger payments grows...
washingtonpost.com/powerpost/stim…
Senate is now ADJOURNED until Wednesday -- McConnell announces live quorum call at 5 p.m. tomorrow, likely setting up cloture filing that will set up final NDAA votes for Friday.
Interesting mix of headlines rn...

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30 Dec
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30 Dec
Seeing some armchair parliamentarians out there that Democrats could "clay pigeon" the GOP combo bill and divide the question to get a standalone vote on $2K checks. Sorry to break it to everyone, but that's not gonna happen. 1/
For one: there's just no time to get into a regular-order legislative process on either of these bills. Any votes that get set up will have to be done under a unanimous consent agreement to get done before the Congress ends on Sunday. No such motion would be in order. 2/
For another: You can't "clay pigeon" bills, only amendments. See Riddick's, p.1,503: "applies to amendments and motions but not to the original text of the bill, which, except by unanimous consent or suspension of the rules, must be acted on as a single question in one vote." 3/ Image
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29 Dec
I sense a side-by-side heading our way...
Confirmed: @SenateCloakroom described S.5085 in wrap-up memo tonight as a measure that would "Increase the additional 2020 recovery rebates and repeal section 230."
Per two aides familiar, the bill also includes language establishing a commission to study and report on election fraud. Details TK.
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28 Dec
Update on this: @LeaderHoyer told Dems today House will pass $2K checks by rule tonight if they can't pass on suspension. But I am sensing a lot of optimism that won't be necessary.
Translation: They'll vote again using majority threshold instead of 2/3ds. But it will take a lot more time and an extra procedural vote.
But 2/3ds possible -- one thing to watch: GOP absences. Most Rs aren't using proxy voting and every nonvoting member shrinks the denominator.
FLASH: House passes $2,000 stimulus checks on bipartisan 275-134 vote; now to the Senate where action is uncertain. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
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28 Dec
Never have I more wanted to preface a tweet with "knock on wood," but Trump has indicated to congressional leaders that he will sign the covid/omnibus bill into law, averting a potential long shutdown. W/ @seungminkim @JStein_WaPo @ToluseO washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020…
Long Trump statement ("demanding many rescissions"; "Congress has promised"; "I will never give up my fight") amounts to total and complete surrender. Image
By signing, he has eliminated all leverage he had to actually do any of these things. Everything else is puffery: Dems are holding the $2K checks vote, which most Rs oppose; Congress has been promising to "review" 230 for yrs; Senate "process" will be quickly blocked by Ds, etc.
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24 Dec
Poor @RobWittman had to go up and down the worst stretch of I-95 on Christmas Eve for 45 seconds of floor action.
@daveweigel @RobWittman So here's what happened: there actually was no objection on the floor per se. Hoyer asked for UC, chair @RepDebDingell said under the rules she can't entertain a UC request, Hoyer asked her to clarify to point out @GOPLeader was objecting, and that was that.
Wittman did the same thing on the other side. In the end, the big winner was @realDonaldTrump who had his entire NDAA veto message read aloud to a larger than usual @cspan audience.
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