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11 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
If Congress decides that it was really weird and bad for some of its members to pander to a violent rioting mob then Congress can vote to kick those members out. Doing so is very constitutional. huffpost.com/entry/josh-haw…
Several Democrats have called for Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz to resign. Sherrod Brown said they should be expelled if they won't step down.

Expulsion requires a 2/3 majority vote though.

Dem leaders are preoccupied with impeachment this week.
No magic formula here!

"Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member."
Me? I think it's weird how many Republicans voted to overturn election AFTER rioters whose only aim was overturning the election ransacked both the House and Senate, killed a cop and wrote MURDER THE MEDIA on a door

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Arthur Delaney Profile picture
11 Jan
This is slipping by in many accounts of the attack on the Capitol.

147 Republicans voted to throw out the election AFTER rioters ransacked the Capitol for no reason other than to throw out the election.

Important story by @jbendery

huffpost.com/entry/republic…
That's a vote that basically says hey, those rioters had a point!

Pretty sick!
Mitch McConnell sized up the stakes of that vote pretty well:

"We cannot simply declare ourselves a national board of elections on steroids. The voters, the courts, and the States have all spoken. They have all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever."
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29 Dec 20
NEWS: States have apparently found a way to pay federal unemployment benefits for the last week of December even though Trump signed the bill after the 26th, start date for the final unemployment benefits week.

Here's NJ:
Bill text says provisions for an extra $300 and a continuation of gig worker and long-term benefits apply "to weeks of unemployment beginning after December 26, 2020 (or, if later, the date on which such agreement is entered into), and ending on or before March 14, 2021.’’
"Agreement" refers to agreement between state workforce agencies and the US DOL to pay federal benefits.

Per @EvermoreMichele of @NelpNews, states and USDOL have decided that the original CARES Act agreements from earlier this year will suffice.
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25 Dec 20
Merry Christmas!

If the president doesn’t sign the covid relief bill by Saturday, unemployed people will miss out on one of the bill’s 11 weeks of benefits, per UI expert @EvermoreMichele
It’s a fluke of the way benefits are paid weekly and the way the bill has an end date and apparently no provision for a late start.
Republicans like Mitch McConnell acted like it would be harmless to appease the president’s sore loser tantrum for a little while, but here we are with the president having a total meltdown right after McConnell’s belated acknowledgment of the election result.
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21 Dec 20
The big COVID relief bill continues the ban on federal funding for ACORN, an organization that has not existed for years Image
In 2018 I went and asked Republicans why they keep doing this and they didn't really know. Tom Cole said it's probably just leftover language that staffers keep on copy-and-pasting.

I like to think there's some staffer with a burning ACORN grudge
huffpost.com/entry/congress…
the story was with @zachdcarter but the best material came straight from Darrell Issa Image
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21 Dec 20
Talked to an unemployed worker who stands to gain a lot from the new relief bill's unemployment provisions, but his PUA claim is on hold

So he's THRILLED about the $600 direct payments, which mean $1,800 for his family, possibly before the end of the year huffpost.com/entry/coronavi…
Important thing about this round of payments is that it's $600 per person -- the adult payment is half what it was in the previous round, but there was no corresponding reduction in the dependent payment, which is actually $100 more than before
He still thinks it's ridiculous that lawmakers had such a hard time finding this money.

“When it comes to wars, they have all the money in the world,” he said.
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21 Dec 20
Mitch McConnell last night said Congress coulda done this bill in July:

“Republicans were advocating for a package just like this one, all along, in real time.”

No, they weren’t.
McConnell in July:

“I won't put a bill on the floor that doesn't have liability protection in it.”

c-span.org/video/?474029-…
Also McConnell in July:

“we're not negotiating over liability protection. I'll be responsible for putting the final agreement on the floor. And as I said, it will have liability protection in it. So we're not negotiating with the Democrats over that.”

cnbc.com/video/2020/07/…
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