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17 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Sheldon Whitehouse told me he's still waiting for a public commitment on climate from Fed Chair Jerome Powell, and says Brainard is "distinctly better" on that issue
"He hasn't won my vote"
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Elizabeth Warren continues to oppose a Powell pick and warns his views on deregulating big financial institutions are a big risk to the economy bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
This comes as Manchin is going to meet with Powell; problem is how do you make both Sheldon Whitehouse and Joe Manchin happy on Fed/climate?

Maybe you don't need to because a lot of Rs are pushing Biden to pick Powell.
Previously in Sheldon Whitehouse hallway interviews

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19 Nov
Reminder that the federal budget mostly on autopilot is on track to spend ~$60T with ~$45T revenue over next decade. BBB changes the trajectory of that spending and taxing by a few percent.
BBB is a lot smaller than Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Defense Department, etc. is it big? Yes. ARP and CARES were similar in size but on a *much* more compressed timeline. This is long-term bill.
Remember fiscal cliff deal? The deficit impact of that Obama-Biden-McConnell law extending most of the Bush tax cuts *but not Obama’s* is about $500B a year *today.*
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16 Nov
Sherrod Brown “absolutely certain” Senate would confirm either Brainard or Powell. Via ⁦@LauraLitvan⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Portman told me he personally urged Biden to select Powell. Sees Brainard as more of a dove amid concerns about Fed balance sheet and inflation.
Murkowski said she spoke to Biden yesterday when I asked about Fed chair and Powell/Brainard. Wouldn’t detail the conversation though as she headed into lunch.
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13 Nov
I've never seen so many party showers -- didn't even know the term, until I started looking at expensive mansions. They almost all above about $6M seem to have them these days. #FridayNightZillow
Affordable history! Press corps should buy this house for covering Biden in Wilmington. $289,900. Nice. 1749. #FridayNightZillow zillow.com/homedetails/23…
Almost done, but you won't want to miss the next couple houses! We're going to end with a bang. #FridayNightZillow
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13 Nov
TONIGHT on #FridayNightZillow!
*Georgia party mansion w/massive Chinese garden, chapel, 100s of fountains, 3,000 square foot bedroom and an epic backstory
*Bonkers concrete cowboy house
*5 historic homes sold as combo
+Much, much more...
Hope they put a smile on your face!
FIRST on #FridayNightZillow: a BONKERS mansion known for holding some of Georgia's biggest and craziest parties.

16,900 sf, 15 acres, $2.5M

Includes "the largest private Chinese Garden and the largest residential fountain system in the United States" zillow.com/homedetails/13…
The garden has *350* fountain heads, per an article in The Palm Beach Post on the lavish party the owners held for 300 when it was done. A fun read at the link: newspapers.com/clip/23432297/…
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10 Nov
It's 2021 and we still haven't figured out how to stop robocall car warranty scams.
Like, SpaceX can land office-building-sized rockets on drone ships in the middle of the ocean, but the phone companies / FTC / Congress somehow can't figure out how to block / track down / put out of business these scammers?
I wonder if a 1-5 cents a call phone tax - replacing other per line phone taxes - would end this practice.
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10 Nov
Fun fact: If Mitt Romney had invested $200M in Tesla on Oct. 3, 2012, he'd be worth ~$36 billion today.
That in turn would be enough to buy a Tesla for most of the households in Utah. He could have been Oprah-like, but for an entire state. "You get a car and you get a car..."
Fwiw, Romney drives a nice Cadillac SUV and likes to drive it himself, unlike a lot of other senators who often get driven around.

Tesla drivers in Congress that I'm aware of:
Massie
AOC
I think Schiff?
Heinrich
Kelly
Carper
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