Been hearing from more Montana tribal leaders not happy with Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) for vowing to block Biden's Interior Secretary nominee, Native American congresswoman Deb Haaland, because she is "radical." huffpost.com/entry/gop-sena…
“Representative Haaland is not a radical," said Andrew Werk, president of Fort Belknap Indian Community Tribal Council in MT. "This is about who’s qualified for the job. And she definitely is.”

He noted Daines didn’t mention MT tribes at all in his statement attacking Haaland.
“It just makes my blood boil,” said Floyd Azure, chairman of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes in MT.

Sen. Daines' efforts to tank Deb Haaland's nomination "just go to show that Native Americans are just second-rate citizens here in this country."
“Deb is a great choice and is smart. I disagree and am disappointed about [Daines'] stance,” said Gerald Gray, chairman of the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe in Montana. “I would also like to see him stop calling all Dems 'radical.'"
“It’s sad that a U.S. senator from Montana — a state with seven Indian reservations — threatens to block the nation’s first Native American secretary of Interior."

--Pat Smith, board chairman of Western Native Voice, a Montana nonprofit focused on Native leadership.
Also Sen. Daines knows this, but he can't "block" Haaland's nomination, despite his threat to do so.

He's in the minority now. The most he can do is cause some delays in her confirmation process.
Why would Sen. Daines be calling Deb Haaland "radical" for wanting to protect public lands as Interior Secretary.

And wait, why is Sen. Barrasso calling her "radical" for that too?

Ah. huffpost.com/entry/gop-sena… Image

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20 Feb
Well well. Conservative Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) is testifying in support of Deb Haaland in her Senate confirmation hearing next week.

Smart move by her team. Will make it harder for Senate GOPers in there trying to frame Haaland as "radical."
Why are Republican Sens. Steve Daines and John Barrasso -- both of whom will play a role in Haaland's confirmation hearing -- attacking her as "radical" for wanting to protect public lands as Interior Secretary?

Take a guess. huffpost.com/entry/gop-sena…
That Daines and Barrasso are suggesting a Native American woman is "radical" for wanting to protect public lands is also incredibly offensive + tone deaf given the U.S. government's violent history of forcibly removing Native Americans from their lands. huffpost.com/entry/gop-sena…
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19 Feb
Looks like Sen. Dick Durbin, now chair of Judiciary Cmte, will stick with GOP's blue slip rule for Biden's judicial picks.

Appeals court picks will get hearings regardless of a home-state senator's objections.

District court picks need blue slips in. sfchronicle.com/nation/article…
In layman's terms: it means Dems aren't going to let Republicans deny committee hearings to Biden's appeals court nominees by refusing to turn in a blue slip -- literally a blue slip of paper -- signaling they're cool with proceeding with a nominee from that senator's home state.
Blue slips are a courtesy in the Judiciary Committee, not an official rule, back when courtesy was *a thing.*

The idea is that a senator should get to sign off -- or not sign off -- on proceeding with a president's judicial nominee from their home state.
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18 Feb
Republican senators are attacking Biden's interior secretary nominee Deb Haaland as "radical" because... she wants to protect public lands, air. huffpost.com/entry/gop-sena… w/ @c_m_dangelo
It turns out the GOP senators going after Deb Haaland for being "radical" for wanting to protect public lands are the same GOP senators raking in $$$ from fossil fuel companies that want to drill on public lands. huffpost.com/entry/gop-sena…
What's so "radical" to Republican senators about Haaland, other than being a Native American congresswoman determined to tackle climate change and protect public lands?

Ah.
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11 Feb
Nancy Pelosi plans to introduce a bill honoring Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman and other officers with the Congressional Gold Medal -- Congress' highest honor. huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pe…
Pelosi just sent a Dear Colleague letter to all House members, inviting them to cosponsor her bill.

A copy of her bill is now in here. huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pe…
FWIW: It's not very often that the House Speaker introduces a bill, so it shows the importance of this one to Pelosi.

Looks like Pelosi only sponsored one bill in the last Congress. Image
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4 Feb
Greene still trying to do clean-up from all the things she's said/amplified in the past.

"These were words from the past and they do not represent me. They do not represent my values."

"I believe in God with all my heart."

"Jesus died on the cross to forgive me for my sins"
Greene wraps up by saying she's really opposed to abortion and that the media "is just as guilty as QAnon" by feeding lies and dividing people.
Dem Rep. Jim McGovern is up now. He's... not sure where to begin.

"To equate the media to QAnon is beyond the pale."

She advocated "putting a bullet to the head of Speaker Pelosi."

"She called a student survivor of the Parkland massacre 'very trained, like a dog.'"
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4 Feb
Marjorie Taylor Greene is now speaking on the House floor, as the House begins the process for removing her from her committee assignments.

"I"m a very proud wife... I'm a mother of 3 children.... I'm a very regular American."
Greene is now talking about her process of not trusting the news or the government, so in 2018 "I started looking up things on the Internet" and learned about conspiracy theories like QAnon.
"That is absolutely what I regret," Greene says of embracing conspiracy theories.

"If it weren't for the Facebook posts I 'liked' in 2018, I wouldn't be standing here today and you couldn't accuse me of anything wrong."
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