Congressional News and Discussion

Yep. The way she phrased that, I could hear the warning tone in her voice. Quite possibly the warning tone her mother used.

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Someone looks like he’s trying to set up a 2028 prez run.

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Keep talking like that, Dems!

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Blockchain != secret

However, all the forensic accountants have probably been fired.

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Can they really “turn off the lights” in the white house? I’d like to see that!

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Congress technically controls the purse strings of the government. So theoretically, I suppose they could. But let’s be real. They’re not going to. Congressional Republicans are not going to defy Trump, and Congressional Democrats can’t do anything like that without support from some Republicans. It would only take a few in the House, but they’d need 13 Republicans in the Senate to cross the aisle.

What Democrats can do, and aren’t, is block appointments, and use their voice and influence in non-legislative ways, like Van Hollen just did.

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That response means one of two things:

  1. He wants to say it’s not true, but he can’t because he’s worried that it might be.
  2. He knows full well that it’s 100% true, but he doesn’t want it to be.

If it wasn’t true, he knew it wasn’t true, and he could have faith that there was no chance that it would become true, he’d just say so. But he didn’t. So…

The True Believers would fullthroatedly agree that it’s a good thing and make something up if they didn’t know, that would somehow still not be as bad as what’s actually planned.

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Wow… this is… disingenuous… at best… “ganged up” on Chuck Grassley? Really?

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This interview with Congresswoman Sarah McBride on Pod Save America was really good and is the kind of thing I need to hear from our Democratic leaders right now.

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My US House rep is currently in El Salvador with two other Dems pressuring them to release Kilmer Albrego Garcia. He’s not her constituent; she’s just heard from her district that this is their #1 priority, so she’s doing shat she can to make it happen.

It should be noted that, back during the campaign, she was criticized as “not progressive enough.” She’d taken sizeable donations from AIPAC. The district she won is Oregon’s most progressive district, and her predecessor is Earl Blumenaur, Oregon’s most progressive representative in decades.

But here’s the thing: she listens. And ultimately, real leadership is about listening, not telling. We saw that with Biden, who many criticized as not being progressive enough; yet he showed during his presidency that he listens. Even among Democrats, we need to reconfigure how we select our politicians away from people who talk well to people who listen well. That’s where true leadership comes from.

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He is Glenn Ivey’s constituent, same district where I live. I couldn’t remember Ivey having anything to say about Abrego Garcia*, but now that I’ve looked, he says he is heading to El Salvador:

*Or, more generally, about any presence of ICE in his district:

Recently, the district has experienced large amounts of immigration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in Central America, leading to the district having the largest Latino population in Maryland and one of the largest Central American populations out of any district.[3] These racial transformations have turned the district into the most Democratic seat in Maryland and one of the most Democratic in the country

(from Wikipedia)

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