Remember when Pelosi was on the phone during the Congressional baseball game?
She was talking to Manchin
Good news: she's still working on this
Still helping get BBB thru the Senate
And she is REALLY good:
nytimes.com/2021/11/20/us/…
2/"[Pelosi] is still not done, with the Senate now getting a chance to reshape the measure in the hope of eventually sending it back for final House approval and Mr. Biden’s signature.
3/"Mr. Manchin is still demanding major changes, such as the jettisoning of a new four-week paid family and medical leave program that Ms. Pelosi has made a top priority.
4/"But in the weeks since their call, Mr. Manchin has privately expressed an openness to embracing a costlier plan than the one he initially insisted upon, & the speaker now says she is confident that the measure approved by the House will re-emerge from the Senate mostly intact.
5/"'They may want to hone or sharpen this or that, and that’s a negotiation,' Ms. Pelosi said of the Senate. “But 90-some percent of that bill is what it is.”
6/".. While her main responsibility was wrangling the House, Ms. Pelosi devoted considerable time to Mr. Manchin and Ms. Sinema, both of whom hold the power to scuttle the deal in the evenly divided Senate if they balk.
7/"Pelosi has ties to both. She has bonded with Mr. Manchin, who like Ms. Pelosi grew up in a political family, over their shared Italian heritage and Catholicism and her work on health and pension benefits for coal miners..
8/"When Ms. Pelosi wanted to send a message to Mr. Manchin about voting rights this year, she had it delivered on a literal silver platter given to her by Robert C. Byrd, the former Senate leader from West Virginia whom Mr. Manchin often cites as a guiding star.
9/"The tray, which is warmly inscribed in appreciation for Ms. Pelosi’s fund-raising work on delivering a Democratic Senate majority in 1987, was a reminder for Mr. Manchin of the speaker’s past relationship with his predecessor.
10/".. With the deadline for a vote approaching, Ms. Pelosi opened a back channel to Ms. Sinema through former Representative Joe Kennedy III, a friend of Ms. Sinema’s who entered the House with her in 2013.
11/"He reported back that Ms. Sinema was ready to abandon the social spending bill entirely if she did not quickly see the House developing a path forward on the public works measure.
12/"In response, Ms. Pelosi sent a letter to her colleagues on Sept. 26 saying the House would take up the infrastructure bill the next day, a plan that drew vehement opposition from progressives and led to a stalemate for weeks. .."

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14 Nov
Per @jonkarl "Betrayal":
We have kewpie doll Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis writing yet *another* memo directing Pence
Meadows sent it to Pence's aide:
It gave states til 7pm 1/15/20 to send back new votes & if they missed that deadline their votes wouldn't be counted
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2/"Ellis, in the memo, outlined a multi-step strategy: On Jan. 6, the day Congress was to certify the 2020 election results, Pence was to send back the electoral votes from six battleground states that Trump falsely claimed he had won.
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Maggie Haberman got a copy
She reports he writes that when he had Covid he was given last rights at the hospital
He then got a call from a hospitalized Trump, who asked:
“Are you gonna say you got it from me?”
nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/…
This book is Christie doing the traditional 'write a book before you run for the Oval' dance
It's a *lot* of too little, too late
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Per NYT:
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2/"the Youngkin victory knocks down “this idea that if you don’t agree with Donald Trump on everything, and pledge unfettered fealty to him, then you can’t win because his voters quote unquote won’t come out to vote,” Mr. Christie said. “No candidate owns voters. They don’t.”
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"[Let] Medicare negotiate. We're talking an authority in part B and Part D. Every insulin product in Part D would be available at a low cost and insulin prices would be negotiated by the government. Inflation caps.
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"This is what came out of the Finance Committee, as you know, that limit drug manufacturers from engaging in price gouging and we're talking about both Medicare and the commercial market. An out of pocket cap to spare a seniors from high drug costs
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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
Read 10 tweets
30 Oct
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
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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..
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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.
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