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21 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
It appears that Mitch McConnell is filibustering a Senate organizing resolution so that he may later filibuster more things Senate Democrats might do huffpost.com/entry/filibust…
not even Joe Manchin is pleased with the filibuster filibuster, @igorbobic reports:

“Chuck has the right to do what he’s doing. He has the right to use that to leverage in whatever he wants to do. I’m not worried about that at all."
looks like Chuck Schumer is going to have to become a filibuster filibuster buster
I went to bed just assuming Dems would be chairing committees today. Chuck Grassley on Tuesday bid farewell to his Finance gavel, for instance.

But no, the big Senate fight is already here!

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19 Jan
Sherrod Brown (D-OH) asks Janet Yellen if Congress passed an advance monthly child tax credit, would she be on board with getting those monthly checks out ASAP.

"I'll try to get it implemented as fast as possible"
cc @MattBruenig
Michael Bennet (D-Col), co-sponsor of advance monthly CTC bill: "if this manages to make it thru Congress we will have cut child poverty by 45%," calls child poverty a "crisis" 👀
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19 Jan
Senator John Thune (R-SD) tells Janet Yellen he is concerned about the "massive amount of debt that we continue to rack up" and says "we seem to have no concern" about it

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James Lankford (R-OK) asks Yellen what metric signals debt it too high.

She says there's no single metric but one to watch is the interest burden of the debt as a share of GDP.

Lankford says we need an earlier warning sign than that. 🧐
Rob Portman (R-Ohio) warns against getting "too comfortable" with low interest rates, asks Yellen to be "voice of fiscal sanity within the administration."

"I pledge to do that," Yellen says.
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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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11 Jan
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."
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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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