Some reporting last night that Pelosi's office is still working to gather support for a last-minute proposal to lower prescription drug costs
No Senate buy-in yet tho..
Thread ⤵️ statnews.com/2021/10/28/pel…
2/"The new policy, which Pelosi’s office is pitching as a collaboration between House Energy & Commerce Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.), would allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices for medications administered by doctors and at the pharmacy counter
3/"after their so-called exclusivity period, granted by the Food and Drug Administration, expires, four sources said.
4/"The tentative deal would also penalize drug makers for raising prices faster than inflation in both the employer-sponsored insurance market and Medicare. Seniors would have their out-of-pocket drug costs capped each year.
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And per NYT today on National Archives filing re the records Trump's trying to block J6 from getting:
THREAD: nytimes.com/2021/10/30/us/…
2/"In the filing, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, John Laster, the director of the National Archives’ presidential materials division, laid out for the first time exactly which documents Mr. Trump was asserting executive privilege over.
3/"The former president is hoping to prevent the documents from being reviewed by the House committee empowered to investigate the mob violence at the Capitol
National Archives has filed a brief this morning containing info @ which records Trump's trying to withhold from J6
daily presidential diaries
drafts of election-related speeches
logs of his phone calls
handwritten notes
files of top aides
Hmmm..
Here: politico.com/f/?id=0000017c…
According to this filing Trump's trying to block 750 pages out of nearly 1,600 identified by officials as relevant to J6 investigation
Including “multiple binders of Kayliegh McEnany which is made up almost entirely of talking points & statements related to the 2020 election,”
Per National Archives many files were drawn from the systems of key Trump aides including former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, adviser Stephen Miller and deputy counsel Patrick Philbin
And (!): 1/6 planners say GOP members of Congress involved in the PLANNING of the insurrection were:
Greene
Boebert
Brooks
Gohmert
Biggs
Gosar
& Cawthorn
And Gosar told these planners they'd get a Trump "blanket pardon"
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Per Rolling Stone:
"The two sources, both of whom have been granted anonymity due to the ongoing investigation, describe participating in “dozens” of planning briefings ahead of that day when Trump supporters broke into the Capitol as his election loss was being certified
2/"“I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically,” the organizer says. “I remember talking to probably close to a dozen other members at one point or another or their staffs.”
ICYMI:
Florida Bar suspended Matt Gaetz's law license for failure to pay fees
They called him “delinquent” & said he's “not eligible to practice law in Fla”
Gaetz money situation is reported to be flailing
(And this isn't a lot of money)
Uh oh Matty.. thedailybeast.com/delinquent-mat…
Per DB: " the Florida Bar has branded Gaetz as “delinquent” twice in the past two years. The organization temporarily cut him off in 2019 and again in 2020, because Gaetz failed to affirm that he is properly handling and protecting any clients’ money in trust accounts. .
2/"Lawyers must abide by strict rules to ensure they are not stealing or misusing money that belongs to the people they represent .. In 2019, he also ran afoul of the professional organization’s “standards of civility” for serving the role of Trump attack dog.
Biden's Supreme Court Commission has released a draft report on their findings
And it doesn't look like they're strongly recommending an expansion
Final report due 11/14
Per Psaki: Biden won't be commenting until the final report is released
Here: cbsnews.com/news/supreme-c…
2/"The commission arranged a separate 16-person committee of Supreme Court lawyers and former solicitors general who collectively have argued more than 400 cases before the high court, to share their views on the proposals for major changes to the court.
3/"This group "unanimously oppose[d] proposals to enlarge the court" because "increasing the number of justices represents an escalation of the problem, not a solution, and a larger bench could make arguments less productive, deliberations more difficult,
Lots of folks aren't understanding what's involved in Congress referring for criminal contempt. So here's a thread from Jan 6th Committee chair Bennie Thompson's statement on referring Steve Bannon to DOJ
Everyone should read these words:
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"Any person who willfully refuses to provide testimony or documents subpoenaed by Congress..is potentially liable for contempt of Congress under 2 U.S.C. §§ 192, 194. Contempt of Congress is a crime that may result in a fine and between one and twelve months imprisonment.
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"Contempt of Congress begins with a “formal action” by the Select Committee, i.e., a business meeting at which a contempt report is adopted. If a witness fails to appear, produce documents, or refuses to answer any question “pertinent to the question under inquiry,”
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