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19 Feb, 5 tweets, 1 min read
A) From colleague Kristin Fisher. Confirms that Biden said the following to governors/mayors about minimum wage hike in next COVID bill: “I really want this in there but it just doesn't look like we can do it because of reconciliation."
B) Biden: "I’m not going to give up. But right now, we have to prepare for this not making it.”
C) And note…that there are two ways the minimum wage probably dies in the Senate on the reconciliation package.

The increase will be in the initial version, expected to be passed by the House next week.
D) But the Senate’s “Byrd Rule” probably torpedoes the minimum wage. The Byrd Rule requires issues like the minimum wage must be deficit neutral over an extended period or fiscal in nature.
E) Or, Senate Democrats simply don’t have the votes to move the overall package if Sens. Manchin & Sinema balk at this particular minimum wage increase

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19 Feb
1) The plan is to keep the current National Guard contingent around the Capitol until mid-March. But Fox is told to anticipate the Guard to maintain a smaller footprint of soldiers at the ready after that.
2) Fox is told that contingent of forces may not always be at the Capitol complex but could be deployed quickly on campus if necessary.

“It’s naive to think that in the middle of March (the guard troops) go away,” said one source.
3) The problem is that the US Capitol Police force is overworked and still recovering from last month’s riot. Ranks are depleted. Morale is low. Officers are suffering from injuries – physical and mental.
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17 Feb
1) Here is the timing to move the next round of coronavirus aid through the House.

Expect the House Budget Committee to announce its meeting for the budget reconciliation vehicle (the measure which can avoid filibusters in the Senate) in the next day or two.
2) The Budget Committee meeting itself will be Monday at noon. The reconciliation measure will include the coronavirus package.

Expect the package to go to the House Rules Committee in the middle of next week with a floor vote toward the end of next week.
3) Then the plan goes to the Senate.

What remains to be seen is if the $15 minimum wage can survive the “Byrd Rule” in the Senate. This requires that the minimum wage not add to the deficit over a ten year window.
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15 Feb
A) Pelosi to Dems: Now, as always, security is the order of the day: the security of our country, the security of our Capitol which is the temple of our democracy, and the security of our Members.
B) Pelosi: For the past few weeks, General Honoré has been assessing our security needs by reviewing what happened on January 6 and how we must ensure that it does not happen again.  He has been working with Committees of Jurisdiction and will continue to make proposals.
C) Pelosi: It is clear from his findings and from the impeachment trial that we must get to the truth of how this happened. To protect our security, our security, our security, our next step will be to establish an outside, independent 9/11-type Commission
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14 Feb
1) Biden: The Senate vote followed the bipartisan vote to impeach him by the House of Representatives. While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute.
2) Biden: Tonight, I am thinking about those who bravely stood guard that January day. I’m thinking about all those who lost their lives, all those whose lives were threatened, and all those who are still today living with terror they lived through that day.
3) Biden: And I’m thinking of those who demonstrated the courage to protect the integrity of our democracy – Democrats and Republicans, election officials and judges, elected representatives and poll workers – before and after the election.
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13 Feb
1) What to expect in the next couple of hours with the Senate trial: Shorthand: A VOTE TODAY

The witness issue, has been addressed to the satisfaction of both sides, as quickly as it arose.
2) The impeachment managers and the President’s defense counsel agreed to enter into the record the statement by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA). Everyone agreed, and, poof, the Senate got the trial back on track. That means a vote comes TODAY.
3) The managers and defense attorneys have a grand total of four hours to present closing arguments. We doubt they will incinerate that much time. That means, a vote on the guilt or innocence of President Trump comes next.
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13 Feb
A) GOP ND Sen Cramer: There's talk that maybe even a stipulation of (Herrera-Beutler) statement into the record and leave it at that, which would be great, would be great and efficient because that would end it all.
B) Cramer: It also takes the Democrats off the hook for what they have done which is a really, really stupid moronic thing by driving -- by really throwing a hand grenade in the middle of all this.
C) Cramer: We know why -- they got their heads handed to him yesterday intellectually, constitutionally, legally. And their base was pissed off, I mean their base was mad that they got -- that they blew it yesterday
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