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26 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Schumer from Senate floor on infrastructure: "Senators should be on notice the Senate may stay in session through the weekend to finish the bipartisan infrastructure bill...Further delays may mean the Senate will remain in session into the previuously scheduled August recess."
Schumer on the bipartisan infrastructure talks: "We have reached a critical moment...It's time for everyone to get to yes and produce an outcome for the American people."
Schumer on nominations Senate will vote on this week in addition to Asst Attorney General nominee Todd Kim "including members of the National Labor Relations Board and potentially votes to advance nominess from our Senate cmtes."
Nominations of Gwynne Wilcox and David Prouty to be National Labor Relations Board members were both approved by Senate HELP Cmte on 13-9 votes last week & are awaiting Senate floor votes.If both are confirmed,Democrats would have a majority on NLRB Board for 1st time in 4 years.
Schumer filed cloture on the nominations of Gwynne Wilcox and David Prouty to be members of the National Labor Relations Board, setting up Senate floor votes for later in the week.

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26 Jul
54-40: Senate advanced the nomination of Todd Kim to be Asssitant Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources.If confirmed, he would be the first Asian American to serve as Justice Dept's top attorney overseeing its criminal & civil cases to enforce environmental laws.
7 Republican Senators Blunt, Capito, Collins, Cornyn, Graham, Grassley and Murkowski voted Yes to advance Todd Kim's nomination to be Asssitant Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources.
Senators Booker, Cardin, Crapo, Inhofe, Murray, and Rounds were not present for Todd Kim's cloture vote.
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26 Jul
House NOW debating Senate-passed bill to compensate CIA personnel and US diplomats who experienced traumatic brain injuries while serving in Cuba, known as "Havana syndrome."
Castro (D-TX):"It's imperative the State Dept. working in conjunction w/intel community,dept of defense & other interagency partners & allies get to the bottom of what caused these events, how best to deter them from happening them in the future & how best to protect our people."
Foreign Affairs Ranking Member McCaul (R-TX): "We must call these heinous attacks what they are. They are attacks and the people attacking us need to know the consequences will be severe when we find out who they are when we get the attribution."
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26 Jul
President Biden on #ADA31 with Pelosi and McCarthy in attendance at WH:"31yrs ago today on South Lawn of the WH,President George HW Bush signed the Americans w/Disabilities Act.He was surrounded by disability advocates & bipartisan members of the US Congress,just as we are today.
Hoyer: “Thirty-one years ago, I was honored to stand beside President George H. W. Bush as he signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. Today, I am proud to join President Biden at the White House to celebrate this anniversary.”
.@GOPLeader McCarthy spoke with President Biden in WH Rose Garden following the #ADA31 event.
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26 Jul
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA): “I have COVID, Becca has COVID, my son has COVID. Becca and I had COVID before, early on, in January 2020, before the world really knew what it was. So, this is our second experience with the CCP biological attack weaponized virus.”
Higgins (R-LA) on contracting COVID-19 for a 2nd time: “This episode is far more challenging. It has required all of my devoted energy. We are all under excellent care, and our prognosis is positive. We are healthy generally speaking.”
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25 Jul
Speaker Pelosi today: “Today, I am announcing the appointment of Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran and Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard, to serve on the Select Committee” to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Pelosi on Kinzinger: “He brings great patriotism to the Committee’s mission: to find the facts and protect our Democracy.” speaker.gov/newsroom/72521
McCarthy: “Speaker Pelosi’s rejection of the Republican nominees to serve on the committee and self-appointment of members who share her pre-conceived narrative will not yield a serious investigation.”
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29 Jun
House NOW debating legislation to remove Confederate statues from US Capitol and replace the bust in the Old Supreme Court chamber of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who authored the Dred Scott decision, with one of Thurgood Marshall, the 1st African American Supreme Court Justice.
House Administration Cmte Chair Lofgren:"It is long past time to remove from a place of honor in our nation's Capitol the statues & busts of those who favored war against the United States in support of a so-called government founded on a cornerstone of racism & white supremacy."
Speaker Pelosi: "Removing these statues will not erase the stain and that of other racist acts in our history, nor will it erase the racism that exists in our country today. But it is an important and necessary step."
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