A) McConnell: We're still working to reach a bipartisan deal on infrastructure..I know a comprehensive infrastructure package would be welcome by all state and local governments.
B) McConnell: The federal government's gas tax provides some of the money that would pay for some of what we would do. It comes down to what the government gives us on a per capita basis.
C) McConnell: We continue to talk and hope we will get a bipartisan outcome. If we don't I expect the Democrats to try to put through a large package. It'll be extremely controversial because of the massive amounts of taxes.
D) McConnell: My advice to the president is to reach a deal on infrastructure that is smaller, significant, but fully paid for.
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1) A couple of notes about President Biden releasing his budget today.
Remember one thing: budget proposals sent to Congress are aspirational. Press releases on steroids. They are phantoms.
Never does Congress enact a President’s budget. Nor are they binding.
2) Budgets are mythical beasts. Budgets are simply wish lists. Ideas and priorities spelling out where a President would direct federal dollars if they got their way.
3) Yet lawmakers in both the House and Senate incinerate an inordinate amount of time embracing or criticizing a President’s budget proposal.
Much of the money the federal government will spend this fiscal year - 70% - is already on automatic pilot, devoted to entitlements
A) The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Why The Procedural Vote On the 1/6 Bill Still Hasn’t Happened
B) The Senate meets today at 9 am et. Senators met until 2:51 am et today after the Senate found itself in a complicated tangle over the science and technology bill with a lot of Republican senators balking.
C) Unless the Senate is able to forge a separate agreement, it must first finish the science and technology bill before a critical, procedural vote on a measure to create a commission to investigate the January 6 riot.
1) The Senate is in a real tangle right now ovee a science and technology bill we thought senators would complete Thursday afternoon.
2) A coalition of several Republican senators are holding things up on a panoply of issues hours after leaders thought they would be able to advance the science and technology plan.
3) The Senate just voted to Instruct the Sergeant At Arms to Request the Attendance of Absent Senators, 84-7.
1) The Hitchhiker’s Guide On Why Today Is Such An Important Day For The Future Of The Filibuster
2) Today could be mark the beginning of the end for the filibuster in the Senate.
The Senate today likely takes a procedural vote to launch debate on the bill to create a commission to study the January riot. That vote requires 60 yeas.
3) A handful of Republican senators will likely vote to begin debate - joining all Democrats. But it’s doubtful they get to 60 yeas.
This will infuriate Democrats. They will argue Republicans don’t want to get to the bottom of January 6.
A) USCP: At approximately 2:55pm, the USCP motorcycle officer was struck by a white van at the intersection of Washington Avenue and C Street, SW.
B) USCP: Two USCP motorcycle officers were traveling south on Washington Avenue when a white van traveling north attempted to cut across traffic towards the freeway on-ramp and struck one of the officers while he was on his motorcycle.
C) USCP: The injured officer was conscious and breathing when he was airlifted to the hospital.
The driver of the vehicle was not injured and stayed on the scene. He was arrested for driving without a valid permit.