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@BGOV Congress reporter. @PressClubDC member. @NationalJournal/@TheEagleOnline alum. zcohen@bloombergindustry.com https://t.co/mQK38b3cfD 📸 by Getty
Jan 6, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Rep. Ryan, top Dem appropriator for Cap Police, in response to this video: “There is no doubt I, along with other committee chairs, will be thoroughly investigating how this was allowed to happen. And how we can assure the American people that the violators are fully prosecuted.” More on this day's attack from the team: nationaljournal.com/s/711940?unloc…
Jan 4, 2021 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Senate Republicans who have said they oppose objecting to Electoral College results

McConnell
Thune
Blunt
Romney
Collins
Sasse
Toomey
Murkowski
Cotton
Portman
Grassley
Burr
Shelby
Wicker
Capito
Cassidy

The list grows if including those who have called Biden the president-elect. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND): “I will not object to the Electoral College votes when they are counted, and – unless overwhelmingly persuasive evidence is presented before the Senate when we debate the objections – I will not vote to reject the results.” ImageImage
Sep 26, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) is a no on Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation.

"Judge Barrett was not fit to be a Circuit Judge in 2017 and she is the wrong choice for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court today. Once again, she will not have my support.” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), who voted to confirm Barrett to 7th CCA: “I’ve said from the beginning ... this vacancy should be filled by the winner of the ongoing election. I intend to follow that precedent and will not support anyone’s confirmation until we know the election results."
Sep 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Scarsi is the first nominee of the *entire* Trump administration to be confirmed to a California district court, giving Los Angeles's federal trial courts some much-needed support. Context here: nationaljournal.com/search/?q=scar… The Senate by the end of the day will likely confirm two more judges for the beleaguered U.S. District Court for the Central District of California: Judge Stanley Blumenfeld and attorney John Holcomb.
Sep 14, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
New: Sen. Ron Johnson's committee to vote to depose dozens of Obama-era intelligence, diplomatic, & law enforcement officials, including former Treasury Sec. Jacob Lew, the wife of Rep. Jamie Raskin, & former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith. Full list inside:🔒njour.nl/s/709712 Sen. Mitt Romney to reporters today on HSGAC subpoenas: "This has all the appearance of a political endeavor rather than a legitimate government oversight role."

Johnson says he expects to get every Republican to vote in favor tomorrow. (h/t @AllisonMPecorin)
Sep 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Messner faces NRSC-supported Don Bolduc in the GOP primary today to face Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). (h/t @dylanewells)

New Hampshire issued split decision in '16, voting for Hillary Clinton & Sen. Maggie Hassan by fractions of a percent and electing GOP Gov. Chris Sununu. Bolduc said in October that the NRSC "is in full support of my candidacy. But they can’t officially endorse me until the primary’s clear." Bolduc has met with NRSC staff and used its building for fundraisers. wmur.com/article/nh-pri…
Aug 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC): “while this election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, it is not solely about Donald Trump and Joe Biden.” For those trying to read tea leaves of this speech, remember he has said 2022 will be his last reelection race: postandcourier.com/politics/sen-t…
Aug 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Drove through downtown Lee, MA today, in the heart of rural Berkshire County in #MA01.

Saw 8 yard signs for @NealForCongress and 1 for @joekennedy. Found about a half-dozen @AlexBMorse yard signs while driving around Berkshire County yesterday. Also one or two adverts for @NealForCongress, @EdMarkey, and @joekennedy.
Aug 8, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell & Senate Republicans, while preferring congressional action, are applauding President Trump’s executive orders to defer payroll taxes and student-loan deferrments, and partially revive unemployment insurance enhancements and eviction relief. McConnell: “Since Democrats have sabotaged backroom talks with absurd demands that would not help working people, I support President Trump exploring his options to get unemployment benefits and other relief to the people who need them the most.”
Aug 7, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Politics in the age of #coronavirus: A Schumer-linked super PAC is up with a TV ad blasting Sen. Joni Ernst for backing a bill he helped negotiate and pass. The ad accuses Ernst (R-IA) of backing a "half-trillion dollar corporate slush fund to bail out big donors," citing Politico's reporting on Dems' critique of the CARES Act's corporate stabilization *loans.*

Ernst isn't mentioned in the piece. politico.com/news/2020/03/2…
Aug 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
“I don't think they have a working relationship": Should Biden pick Harris as his running mate, it would produce an alliance that has previously been tangential at its best and confrontational at its worst. More from me and @mattholt33:🔒njour.nl/s/708971 Harris as attorney general lobbied Biden in 2013 to nationalize California’s method of confiscating weapons from newly-prohibited gun owners.

Obama’s actions, based on Biden's recommendations, didn't touch the topic.

Biden’s campaign, however, endorses California's model. Image
Jul 31, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
How Congress is still struggling to keep #coronavirus away from the halls of power?

A lack of rapid testing, a patchwork of telework policies, and election-year finger-pointing stalling millions of dollars in cleaning supplies for the the Capitol complex

njour.nl/s/708827?unloc… I emailed every Senate office yesterday for their telework, travel, & masking procedures to comply with Congress’ attending physician’s recommendations.

A fourth of the Senate responded, saying they mandate or encourage that staff work from home & cover their face on the Hill. ImageImageImage
Jun 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Democrats' nominee for Senate in West Virginia may be skirting campaign finance law in selling campaign merchandise without requesting or confirming contributors' occupation, employer, age, and citizenship or residency status. go2.nationaljournal.com/v/NE00zYkk000i… Paula Jean Swearengin, Demo... Per 1 expert: “It’s important to collect that information to ensure that the campaign itself is complying with its legal obligations in not accepting an excessive contribution in the aggregate or accepting a contribution from a source that’s not permitted to make those" donations
Jun 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
McConnell this morning was one of the first I've heard to accurately describe today's milestone following expected confirmation of Judge Cory Wilson to 5th Circuit:

"The Senate will have confirmed 200 of President Trump's nominees to lifetime appointments on the federal bench." Wilson will not be the 200th "judge" confirmed since 2017:

Included in that "200" tally are three judges (Walker, Brasher, and Quattlebaum) who were each confirmed to two different courts in last three years.
Jun 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
INBOX: Judiciary Chairman Graham says he’ll defer to Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand on whether to advance Jay Clayton’s nomination to be the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Schumer says be wants Clayton to withdraw after AG Barr tried to fire USA Berman. ImageImage Gillibrand: “I will not be complicit in helping [Trump & Barr] fire a U.S. attorney who is reportedly investigating corruption in this administration

"Jay Clayton should withdraw his name from consideration immediately and remove himself from this sham." Image
Jun 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Senate is now voting to confirm Judge Justin Walker to a lifetime position on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

We've been covering this critical nomination since April, and you can find all of our coverage here: nationaljournal.com/search/?q=%22J… Break: The Senate votes 51-42 to confirm Judge Justin Walker, 38, to sit on the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Walker was a former clerk to Justice Kennedy and Judge Kavanaugh and intern to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Jun 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will take up Sen. Tim Scott's police-reform bill *after* confirmation of two circuit nominees at the earliest. The Senate may instead take up the National Defense Authorization Act. McConnell on police reform: "The House version is going nowhere in the Senate."

Instead, McConnell plans to force a cloture vote. Says Democrats will have to decide whether to filibuster Scott's bill or get on it and try to amend it.

"We're in the process of making a law."
Jun 12, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
.@SenatorTimScott is having a moment.

With a lifetime of credibility on the debate over racial bias, Scott is crafting a police reform bill that he hopes “brings our country together and solves some underlying issues.” Why now? First is that there has been a "sea change," in Scott's words, in how Americans view systemic racism. “Without question, this is different. It feels different. It sounds different. The protesters are different."
Jun 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: "No question" the current push for police reform is different this time, @SenatorReid tells me. "This climate is much different. We've never had attention focused on police like this. ... I think this isn't and shouldn't be a partisan issue."🔒njour.nl/s/707388 Reid of Nevada vouched for Las Vegas casinos reopening amid #coronavirus and said he might go to his office at the Bellagio next week.

But "not a chance in hell" he's going to Milwaukee for the Democratic National Convention this summer, especially given his health. ImageImage
Jun 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Judiciary meeting starting any minute to authorize Graham's Crossfire Hurricane subpoena might take a while. Democrats have filed *22* amendments to the motion: judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/06/04… While Judiciary is still debating their Crossfire Hurricane subpoena, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved their's on a party-line vote just now. hsgac.senate.gov/05/28/2020/bus…
Jun 2, 2020 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
NEW: Lynching is not a federal crime, despite more than congressional 200 efforts to make it so since the 19th century.

Sen. Rand Paul is blocking the most recent effort, which passed the House this year with only four dissensions.

njour.nl/s/707236?unloc… There was a unanimous consent request in February to pass the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, a measure that had passed the Senate twice before under a different name.

Paul spokesman: “Senator Paul is working with the sponsors of the bill to make it stronger."