1) Rundown of recent violent Capitol security incidents
Some other instances of cars crashing into barricades, USCP shooting suspects
2) In 2006, suspect crashed a car l into similar barricade near the Supreme Court where they were building the Capitol Visitor’s Center. Suspect got into the Capitol before he was apprehended.
3) In 2009, USCP shot and killed two suspects in the Russell Park nearby after they drew guns on officers outside the Capitol after a high speed chase.
4) In 2013 during the government shutdown, USCP shot and killed Miriam Carey after a high speed chase which origniated at the White House and finished on Capitol Hill
In 2016, USCP shot a man who tried to bring a fake Beretta into the Capitol Visitor’s Center
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1) User’s Manual to a Possible Preliminary Decision About Reconciliation for Infrastructure
2) Fox is told that we could in fact get guidance today from Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough as to whether Senate Democrats can push the envelope and re-use a budget reconciliation package for components of the infrastructure bill.
3) This would enable Democrats to sidestep a filibuster, potentially a third or fourth time with fiscal-related bills which qualify for the budget reconciliation process. It may be the only way Democrats can advance portions of their agenda.
1) “Legislative fatigue” could hinder President Biden and Congressional Democrats in their quest to pass a multi-trillion infrastructure bill.
2) Democrats and Republicans spent trillions of dollars last year on coronavirus relief. Democrats just spent $1.9 trillion on their own COVID bill over the winter.
Presidents and lawmakers only have so much political capital when they come into office.
3) President Biden and Democrats incinerated a lot of that capital on the coronavirus measure. But, a long-drawn out slog on a gigantic infrastructure bill could reveal Democratic fissures – especially when dealing with narrow majorities in the House and Senate.
A) When speaking about Biden's infrastructure plan, McConnell says he "can't imagine" that the Brent Spence Bridge between KY/OH via I-75 wouldn't be in that package. Bridge is named after late Dem KY Rep Brent Spence
B) McConnell: If there's any project in America that's eligible this would be it. Somewhere in the bowels of the multitrillion dollars proposal hopefully there is money to fix the bridge. We need it.
C) McConnell notes that even he & Boehner struggled to get replacement for Brent Spence Bridge. On restoring earmarks for the bridge, McConnell says "they do not allow earmarks of this magnitude"
1) McCarthy is in IA today, talking about Dem efforts to overturn House race there. You probably haven’t heard about the GOP effort to contest a seat in Illinois held by a Democrat.
2) McCarthy has been vocal about what he calls Democratic efforts to overturn the election of Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) in favor of Democrat Rita Hart.
3) But McCarthy and other Republicans haven’t said much about a Republican who lost to Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) in Illinois’s 14th Congressional District and similarly appealed the loss to the House Administration Committee.
1) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to How Biden/Democrats Will Sidestep a Filibuster for Infrastructure Package
President Biden and Congressional Democrats have spoken about again using the budget reconciliation process to advance the infrastructure package and avoid a Senate filibuster.
2) This would sidestep the dual requirement to get 60 votes to begin debate on such a bill and 60 votes to conclude debate in the Senate.
However, reconciliation limits Senate debate and the amendment process.
3) Heretofore, it was believed that two reconciliation options were available in a two-year Congress. Two fiscal years. Two budgets. Two prospective reconciliation vehicles. However Democrats are tinkering with the idea or breaking up the infrastructure plan into multiple parts.
1) Gaetz: Over the past several weeks, my family and I have been victims of an organized criminal extortion involving a former DOJ official seeking $25 million while threatening to smear my name.
2) Gaetz: We have been cooperating with federal authorities in this matter and my father has even been wearing a wire at the FBI’s direction to catch these criminals.
The planted leak to the New York Times tonight was intended to thwart that investigation.
3) Gaetz: No part of the allegations against me are true, and the people pushing these lies are targets of the ongoing extortion investigation.