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14 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
1) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announces a delay for the Senate to consider the social spending bill.
2) The original plan was for the Senate to bring it up this week. But that will be pushed back because it hasn’t yet come up in the House. Also, there is no CBO score yet.
3) The Senate cannot even do its formal “scrub” and “Byrd Bath” (an evaluation to make sure the bill complies with Senate budget rules) until there is a CBO score.
4) In light of that, the Senate will take up the annual defense policy bill this week. The Senate could also vote to repeal the 2002 authorization for the US to invade Iraq.

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15 Nov
1) CBO announces it will have final score on social spending bill "by the end of the day on Friday, November 19." Other "titles" of the bill are rolling out this week. No 15: Title I, Committee on Agriculture; Title IV, Committee on Financial Services.
2) November 19—Title II, Committee on Education and Labor; Title III, Committee on Energy and Commerce; Title VI, Committee on the Judiciary; Title VII, Committee on Natural Resources; and Title XIII, Committee on Ways and Means.
3) This timing has different impacts on both the House and Senate.

The House doesn’t ABSOUTELY NEED a FINAL CBO score to debate and vote on the bill. It is more political. Moderate Democrats are insisting that they have a CBO score before considering the bill.
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12 Nov
A) 1/6 cmte chair Thompson/vice chair Cheney: Mr. Meadows’s actions today—choosing to defy the law—will force the Select Committee to consider pursuing contempt or other proceedings to enforce the subpoena.
B) Thompson/Cheney: If his defiance persists and that process moves ahead, the record will reveal the wide range of matters the Select Committee wished to discuss with Mr. Meadows until his decision to hide behind the former President’s spurious claims of privilege.
C) Thompson/Cheney: Many of those matters are not even conceivably subject to any privilege claim, even if there were one. Indeed, Mr. Meadows has failed to answer even the most basic questions, including whether he was using a private cell phone to communicate on January 6th
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12 Nov
1) Federal grand jury indicts fmr Trump aide Steve Bannon on two counts stemming from a contempt of Congress citation by the House after Bannon refused to comply with a subpoena from the cmte investigating the 1/6 riot.
2) The House voted on October 21, 229-202 to hold Bannon in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the subpoena issued by the select panel probing the 1/6 riot.
3) But it’s been nearly four decades since anyone has gone to jail on such a charge. That demonstrates how little muscle Congress has on this issue. And even if Bannon is convicted, that does not guarantee that Congress gets what it needs for its investigation of the riot.
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12 Nov
A) Mark Meadows counsel George Terwilliger on 1/6 cmte subpoena of Meadows: Our correspondence over the last few weeks shows a sharp legal dispute with the committee.
B) Terwilliger: The issues concern whether Mr. Meadows can be compelled to testify and whether, even if he could , that he could be forced to answer questions that involve privileged communications. Legal disputes are appropriately resolved by courts.
C) Terwilliger: It would be irresponsible for Mr. Meadows to prematurely resolve that dispute by voluntarily waiving privileges that are at the heart of those legal issues.
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7 Nov
1) "The politics of time." For all of those dealing with the time change this morning, and wondering who is responsible, look no further than the U.S. Congress.
2) In 1784, Ben Franklin advocated “springing ahead” in spring and “falling back” in autumn in tandem with the sun to conserve candles. But the U.S. never formally implemented the concept until passage of the Standard Time Act in 1918.
3) Sometimes referred to as the Calder Act, the law established the four continental time zones of the United States. Spurred by World War I and efforts to save fuel, Congress initiated “summer” Daylight Saving Time in late March 1918.
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6 Nov
A) We have officially reached the “Stockholm Syndrome” level of where House Democrats stand with negotiations.

The House met at at 8 am et today with the expectation that Democrats could advance both the infrastructure bill and the social spending package.
B) That quickly hit a roadblock. Now House Democrats are at least trying to secure a partial win by passing the infrastructure bill later tonight.

Enter, the Stockholm Syndrome.
C) This is a time honored tradition by leaders of both sides as they try to get the votes on a big issue. As a result, Congressional leaders keep members at the Capitol late at night or over the weekend.
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