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Manu Raju

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19 May

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252-175, the bill passes with 35 GOP defections

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1395149021296185346

Among the defectors: Liz Cheney
Tom Rice
Dan Newhouse
Anthony Gonzalez
Adam Kinzinger
Fred Upton
Jamie Herrera Buetler
Peter Meijer
John Katko
David Valadao
Tom Reed
Don Bacon
John Curtis
Brian Fitzpatrick
Andrew Garbarino
Tony Gonzales
Dusty Johnson

David Joyce
Chris Smith
Van Taylor
Chris Jacobs
McKinley
Jeff Fortenberry
Maria Salazar
Marianette Miller-Meeks
Steve Womack
Stephanie Bice
French Hill
Mike Simpson
Rodney Davis
Barry Moore
Michael Guest
Trey Hollingsworth
Carlos Gimenez

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@mkraju

19 May

If Senate Republicans ultimately block a bipartisan bill to create an independent commission to probe the Jan. 6 attack, Democrats in the House could establish a select committee to investigate the insurrection.

Select committees typically are made up of members of Congress and the majority party would drive the investigation. It would almost certainly have subpoena power as well.

The outside commission is different because it would be comprised of individuals outside of Congress, with both parties making joint decisions on subpoenas. And there would be 10 commissioners equally divided between the two parties.

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@mkraju

22 Apr

New -- The prospect of Herschel Walker's #gasen bid is so real that it's frozen the GOP field.

But concerns abound if he's ready for a bruising campaign and if Trump thought through the implications of his endorsement

McConnell tells us it's "wide open"

cnn.com/2021/04/22/pol…

@arogDC

Walker didn't seem to be in any rush to announce.
"Right now, (I'm) just going through the process and thinking about it. Not really talking a lot about it."

"This got nothing to do with President Trump," Walker said. "With me, I'm about this country right now."
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Doug Collins is thinking about running again - and he’s spoken with the NRSC, including about the nasty spat he had with the committee last cycle. Rep. Buddy Carter has taken steps to prepare for a Senate run but says he will only run if Walker doesn’t.

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@mkraju

14 Apr

New - April is turning out to be a crucial month for any bipartisan deals, with groups of senators holding both informal and formal talks on a range of issues - infrastructure, gun violence, a crackdown on China, police reform, minimum wage and immigration cnn.com/2021/04/14/pol…

"If somebody tells you in their inaugural speech they're for bipartisanship, and they go out and do everything but, it doesn't engender trust," said Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican who says he's been invited to a White House meeting on infrastructure next week.

Blumenthal, Murphy talking to Rs on guns. “Realistically, it's still very much an uphill effort, in part because Republicans are so spooked right now by Donald Trump and his base and the complete irrationality, almost paranoia, of that base when it comes to guns,” Blumenthal says

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@mkraju

24 Mar

Joe Manchin, whose opposition to Neera Tanden's nomination as White House budget director stemmed largely from her partisan tweets, told me the situation was different with Colin Kahl, the Pentagon policy chief nominee, who also came under sharp criticism over his past tweets.

Manchin says that Kahl's tweets weren't as "pointed" at specific individuals and senators and were focused much more about policy.

"Tanden's was much more prolific than that -- and pointed," he told me. "It wasn't about policy, it was more about a person. There is a difference."

Still, Manchin said supporting Kahl was "not an easy decision" and said that he had "many phone calls" with the nominee -- and also spoke with Lloyd Austin and Bob Gates. He didn't speak with Biden. He said he made his decision to support the nomination on Wednesday morning.

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@mkraju

23 Mar

Tammy Duckworth just told me she’s voting NO on Biden nominees until President makes commitment/ appoints AAPI picks to key executive branch positions. She said found it “insulting” that a senior WH aide last night pointed to Harris’ South Asian roots when asked about AAPI picks

Duckworth said she has informed the White House she will oppose the nomination of Colin Kahl as the Pentagon's top policy chief, whose nomination was already hanging by a thread.

Duckworth says Asian-American lawmakers were told the USTR and White House budget director would be Asian-American. But after Neera Tanden's nomination collapsed, she said it appears the White House is going in a different direction.

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