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After the summer break, lawmakers on Capitol Hill will need to pass spending bills by Oct. 1 to avoid a government shutdown.
Piling on, yes, but the House isn't returning until September 12th, where they will have 18 days to pass all but one of the spending bills or a continuing resolution, as well as "reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, pass a farm bill and reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program so that home sales in flood-prone areas can continue."
What a mess.
Republican leaders punted their agriculture and FDA spending bill until September — a setback for their hopes of unity.
Sunnuva. Only one passed. ONLY ONE. We have two months left, and they just conceded a whole month. I wouldn't say, "Inconceivable," because this was definitely in the cards. Bah!
EDIT: The House did pass H.R. 4366, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs.
Here's my fear about our national numbers. It's too early to tell, but if we plateau again around 40-50,000 new cases a day, (like we did in May at around 20,000 cases a day after being at 30,000 in April), I fear that our "third wave" (in quotes because our numbers never really went down, they just dipped before rising again), I fear that if/when our numbers rise again later this Fall they will be even higher than they were in July because they're growing from a higher baseline.
Like I said, it's too early to tell, but we've honestly done next to nothing to significantly drive our numbers down in a sustained way. So many other countries were able to return back down to under 1,000 new cases a day, (many under 100), but we never even got close to that.
And now school is starting again. There's no possible way we manage a sustained decrease with in-person schooling.
And that puts parents who are lucky enough to have a job in a horrible position. How are you supposed to leave the house to work full time with a 4th grader doing online learning at home? How are you supposed to work when you can't take your toddler to daycare? How are you supposed to send your teenager to a crowded high school?
This is why we're still in this mess. Because we didn't take these questions seriously. Or, more accurately, WE took these questions very seriously, but Congress is now on August Recess with no vote and no progress on a coronavirus relief bill. We're struggling with these questions, and they're basically on vacation. That explains a lot.
Donald Trump Announces 'Real Compromise' Budget Deal with Nancy Pelosi
Donald Trump Announces ‘Real Compromise’ Budget Deal with Nancy Pelosi
President Donald Trump announced Monday evening that Republican and Democrat leaders in Congress had agreed to a budget deal that also raised the debt limit.
“I am pleased to announce that a deal has been struck with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy – on a two-year Budget and…
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Action awaits on key issues even as the House speaker tends to a Democratic caucus fractured by border vote.
Things are moving much faster than expected
The Senate wrapped up its work week, and the August work period, with a flurry of votes on judicial nominees, breaking a logjam on the nomin
SMH
CHEYENNE, Wyo | Sen. John Barrasso wins GOP Senate contest in Wyoming
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CHEYENNE, Wyo | Sen. John Barrasso wins GOP Senate contest in Wyoming
CHEYENNE, Wyo — U.S. Sen. John Barrasso on Tuesday fended off a well-funded challenger in Wyoming’s Republican primary.
He beat five opponents, including investor and Stanford University lecturer Dave Dodson of Jackson Hole. Dodson put $1 million of his own money toward a campaign that questioned Barrasso’s ties to corporate interests and Washington political insiders.
Barrasso spent much of primary day attending to business in Washington, D.C., and after thunderstorms delayed his flights, he landed in Casper well after polls closed.
“I’ve always been in Wyoming for primary day but we cancelled the August recess. We’re working on (nominee Brett) Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. We’re working on lots of things,” Barrasso said.
As for beating Dodson, Barrasso said he works every day thinking about how to make life better for Wyoming residents and “I think that the voters saw that.”
Dodson didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment.
Barrasso faces Wilson businessman Gary Trauner in the general election. Trauner ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination In the gubernatorial race, former Wyoming state Rep. Mary Throne won the Democratic primary to replace outgoing incumbent Matt Mead. Throne beat three little-known candidates to secure her party’s nomination.
She now faces a tough fight in heavily Republican Wyoming to become the state’s first Democratic governor since 2011. The race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination was too close to call in early returns among six Republican candidates.
It’s Wyoming’s most contested governor’s race since 2010, when Mead beat six others in the Republican primary. Two finished within 3 points but Mead went on to easily win election and re-election, beating Democrats who stood little chance in deep-red Wyoming.
The outcome of this year’s primary could be similar. The largest share of votes could go to any of at least four candidates, including investor and philanthropist Foster Friess, state Treasurer Mark Gordon, attorney Harriet Hageman and businessman Sam Galeotos.
Friess won a last-minute endorsement from President Donald Trump, who said in a tweet that Friess would be “Strong on Crime, Borders & 2nd Amendment.” Friess is a major donor to Christian causes, potentially helping him secure Wyoming’s religious vote.
Gordon, having served two terms, is the only Republican running with significant experience in government or elected office. That appealed to Pat Seals of Cheyenne, who voted for Gordon after switching from Democratic to Republican registration so he could vote in the primary.
Galeotos, a successful dot-com executive, has pitched technology as Wyoming’s best option for diversifying and improving its economy, which is dependent on fossil fuel extraction.
Hageman, far more than the others, has criticized her opponents — mainly for what she says is too much liberal thinking. A natural resource attorney for ranchers, she could claim much of Wyoming’s farm-and-ranch vote.
In the Senate race, Barrasso won with help from long-standing name recognition and an endorsement from President Donald Trump.
Trump won Wyoming by the largest margin of any state in 2016.
The incumbent’s campaign, meanwhile, questioned Dodson’s campaign contributions, including $1,000 to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Dodson explained that he gave the money out of opposition to Sanders’ opponent, Hillary Clinton, but regretted it.
Few, if any, observers consider Wyoming a likely place for Democrats to pick up a seat on their way to potentially regaining a majority in the Senate.
Even so, this fall’s race is likely to be a referendum on President Donald Trump’s performance.
Trump won Wyoming by the largest margin of any state in 2016. Wyoming coal mines produce about 40 percent of the nation’s coal, and the Trump administration has taken steps to boost the state’s coal industry.
Incumbent Liz Cheney won the Republican nomination for Wyoming’s lone seat in the U.S. House.
Cheney beat two other Republicans, Blake Stanley of Cheyenne and Rod Miller of Buford. Stanley and Miller both characterized themselves as blue-collar conservatives and ran low-key campaigns.
Cheney now seeks a second term against either of two candidates competing for the Democratic nomination.
By MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press