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22 Sep, 6 tweets, 1 min read
As a former appropriations staffer, I reiterate my belief that maybe we should just repeal the entire Budget Act. It could hardly be worse.
Someday, there will be no filibuster in the Senate and (god willing) no Budget Act and it won’t even be clear what we will talk about all day on this website.
Is a complete repeal of the Budget Act allowed under the Byrd Rule?
Constitutional amendment to retroactively bar any legislation with the words Budget and Act in the short title. No Budget Act. No Budget Control Act. No Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act. No Budget Enforcement Act.
It is every appropriators dream to take the 302(a) and 302(b) numbers and light them on fire in front of the Budget Committee Chairman. Someday. Someday.
CBO can stay, of course. That’s an excellent institutional resource for the legislative branch and having its projections and economic analysis is essential to combatting POTUS and OMB on fiscal matters.

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22 Sep
This is my one-tweet summation of what I think is going on with the debt limit politics.
Dems want it on the CR so: (1) the GOP has to provide some votes and/or not filibuster; (2) it can be a suspension rather than a hard, numbered increase; (3) they can move it very quickly and thus (2) take the two-week vote break scheduled for October.
Republicans want to not do that so: (1) it stays in the news as the Dems move it through the budget resolution process; (2) the Dems have to do it all alone as the GOP complains about it; and (3) the Dems have to stick a number on it to satisfy the Byrd rule for reconciliation.
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17 Sep
Getting calls about a viral post saying Biden exempted Members from the federal vaxx mandate, which is a great excuse for me to lecture poor reporters about statutory authority Congress gave POTUS over Title 5 employees and the corresponding lack of power over Title 2 employees.
For the record (and setting aside any inherent constitutional authority as POTUS, which may also be sufficient), POTUS has explicit authority to make regulations for title 5 employees in 5 USC 3301, 3302, and 7301).
Also a good reminder that whatever constitutional authority POTUS has, the vast, vast majority of authority in the modern presidency is derived from statutory grants of power from Congress.
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15 Sep
Side note: this is not an "end the current authorized wars" plea; it's a plea to include sunset provisions in every future AUMF, such that passive congressional inaction can end wars, rather than needing affirms ice supermajorities to do so.
The natural state of a republic is peace, and it should take regular legislative renewals to sustain wars. This also has the benefit of having current representatives approve ongoing wars.

Sunsets flip the equation to more naturally achieve that outcome.
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13 Sep
People saying "in normal circumstances you'd want clear congressional authorization, but we're in an emergency---and Congress is hopelessly unproductive--- so POTUS has to do it" are a (longstanding) part of the reason we are where we are in legislative-executive power dynamics.
I'm strongly of the belief federal vaccine mandates are constitutional, and I also think they are probably good policy. But I am very skeptical that claiming OSHA authority here is anything close to congressional intent to delegate mandatory vaccination authority is silly.
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8 Sep
Nothing pumps me up about Congress like watching this old David Mayhew rant from 2017. It's just the best.

c-span.org/video/?c478518…
"There's a platonic ideal out there of a...party that has all it's members on the same page and operates perfectly. It's a fiction!"
"Look, this is a congressional history conference, so at the least we should be thinking history. And we should be thinking about answering the phone when a reporter calls and giving them something that's reasonably true."
[SLAPS TABLE AND SMILES]
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6 Sep
No doubt people threatening violence or disruptions to proceedings at school board meetings are out of bounds and should be prevented from doing so, but let's not pretend school board meetings weren't hotbeds of lunatics screaming crazy shit long before COVID. That's not new.
No one should be intimidating public officials, and anyone threatening violence or trying to end meetings via disruptions should be barred and/or punished.

But people waiting their turn to get 3 minutes yelling intense views at the board? That's how local government works.
Like, my standard advice to people who want to make change in their community is to to get off Twitter and go yell at a local official. That's what you do. You do NOT threaten people or try to wreck the process, but you do have to go voice strong opinions.
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