🚨 NEWS: Today the Biden Admin put out a new policy to hold ALL recipients of US weapons accountable to intl law. I applaud @POTUS for taking this critical step, modeled on our amendment.

As Joe Biden would say, this is a BFD. More here & in the 🧵 below: vanhollen.senate.gov/download/van-h… US security assistance is an important foreign policy tool, but ALL recipients of this taxpayer-funded support should be required to use it in accordance w/ our values & intl law.

That’s why I intro'd an amendment w/ Sens. Kaine, Schatz, Durbin and 15 others to ensure just that:

I’ve been getting lots of questions on the direct payments and unemployment insurance provisions in the Phase 3 COVID-19 relief package.

Here’s a thread on the details and if you qualify for either. 1. How do I know if I qualify for unemployment benefits?

If you were laid off, you are likely eligible.

The Phase 3 package expands eligibility—adding self-employed, part-time, and gig economy workers—if they lost their job or income due to COVID-19.

The other day, Mr. Philbin kept referencing “Impeachment: A Handbook."

So I did some digging.

Turns out, in that same book, the authors call conspiring with foreign governments to assist a campaign a HIGH CRIME. Here’s what “Impeachment: A Handbook"—the book the President’s own lawyers called an “authority on impeachment”—says about Dershowitz’s argument: “the limitation of impeachable offenses to those offenses made generally criminal by statute is unwarranted—even absurd.”

Just got back from #SOTU. Here are my thoughts: President Trump was eager to take credit for things he had nothing to do with and ignore the harm he has imposed on the country over the last year. The American people deserve a leader who spends less time patting his own back and more time having their backs. Unfortunately, what we’ve seen from Trump has been anything but real leadership. #SOTU