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Sen. Chris Coons on $10B covid deal: “Failing to include any international spending in this bill is a grave mistake, but it goes far beyond that. It is fiscally foolish, risking the chance that tens of millions of vaccines our government has already paid for go to waste” — PolitiTweet.org

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Romney releases details on $10 billion covid relief plan. https://t.co/HkwmGmQksM — PolitiTweet.org

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News -- In a party-line vote, Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocks 11-11 on the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to SCOTUS. Next up: A vote tonight to discharge the nomination by full Senate. Simple majority is needed Cloture vote: Thursday Confirmation: Thursday or Friday — PolitiTweet.org

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Senate Judiciary plans to reconvene in the 4pm hour now that Sen Padilla's delayed flight landed. Hope is around 4:15pm. Once the committee deadlocks, Schumer will move to discharge the nomination. Needs simple majority, which they'll get tonight. Vote to cut off debate Thursday — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kristin__wilson: Rep. Thompson says Peter Navarro "never responded at all, ever" to the committee's requests. Rep. Perlmutter: "He just… — PolitiTweet.org

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Psaki argues that more is needed than the $10B covid relief deal that senators reached, which lacks funding for international covid aid. Psaki notes the WH sought more than $22B for the covid supplemental package. "If we want to continue to providing to the world, we need money." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cliffordlevy: Exclusive: These satellite images, obtained by NYT, refute Kremlin claims that the killing of civilians in Bucha occurred… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NatashaBertrand: National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says to expect further US sanctions on Russia to be announced this week. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Based on what we have seen so far, we have seen atrocities, we have seen war crimes. We have not seen a level of systemic depravation of life of the Ukrainian people to rise to the level of genocide,” WH national security adviser Jake Sullivan says — PolitiTweet.org

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The challenge of an evenly divided Senate: Sen. Padilla's flight was delayed and won't return to DC til later today to vote on Jackson. So Durbin takes committee into recess and it'll reconvene today. Then, Senate will vote to discharge nomination since it'll tie 11-11 in SJC — PolitiTweet.org

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Marsha Blackburn says "it wasn't a trick question" when she asked Jackson: "Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @burgessev: More endorsement intrigue on GOP side. Cruz is for Eric Schmitt in Missouri and Mandel in Ohio, Hawley is for Hartzler in Mi… — PolitiTweet.org

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Senators are waiting for the final CBO score — PolitiTweet.org

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Cory Booker compares the Senate Judiciary Committee proceedings on Judge Jackson to Festivus. "There's been a lot of airing of grievances," he said. "I've heard things that are just ridiculous," he said. — PolitiTweet.org

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“If we were in charge, she would not have been before this committee,” Lindsey Graham says of Jackson. “You would have somebody more moderate than this.” Graham voted for Jackson for DC Circuit and Obama’s two SCOTUS nominees but is a NO now — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NatashaBertrand: Zelensky, visiting Bucha, told reporters that NATO leaders "should come here and see how these games, how this flirtin… — PolitiTweet.org

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Graham calls her an "evasive" witness, an "activist to the core" and criticizes her sentencing decisions in child porn cases. And says she's been embraced by the most "radical people in the Democratic movement." It's the first time he's voted against a SCOTUS nominee — PolitiTweet.org

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Lindsey Graham talks about why he voted for Jackson last year for DC Circuit but will vote against her now given he's often said elections have consequences regarding the court. "Now that you're taking about Supreme Court, you're making policy not just bound by it." — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden again calls Putin a war criminal. "This guy is brutal...What's happening in Bucha is outrageous... I think it's a war crime." — PolitiTweet.org

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As today’s business meeting kicks off, Durbin says some Republicans turned the committee hearing into a “circus” as they “badgered Judge Jackson” and made accusations about her in front of her parents and children — PolitiTweet.org

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A bipartisan Senate deal on $10 billion in Covid aid is expected to be announced as soon as today, per multiple sources. About half of the money would go to therapeutics. It would not include international covid aid. Fully offset. It is less than half the amount the WH wanted — PolitiTweet.org

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First votes on Jackson nomination occur today. After deadlocking in committee, there will be a discharge vote on floor. This could reveal whether Murkowski and Romney support Jackson — unless they say the procedural vote isn’t indicative of how they’ll vote on confirmation — PolitiTweet.org

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Another retiring GOP senator is a NO on Judge Jackson: Pat Toomey, who said tonight: "Her inability to define her own judicial philosophy makes it difficult to understand how she might approach the most important cases facing the nation." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ZcohenCNN: Putin ally Viktor Orban has declared victory in Hungary’s elections w/ 71% of the vote counted. Speaking to supporters Or… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KyungLahCNN: All day, we’ve watched Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw Poland boarding buses returning to Lviv, Kyiv, Kherson. Mothers, child… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jimsciutto: Mass grave discovered in Bucha, outside Kyiv, a CNN team has found.  Bodies were first buried in the grave on the grounds o… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @brianstelter: Here is @fpleitgenCNN's eyewitness account of dead bodies and a "sizable mass grave" in Bucha, Ukraine. https://t.co/IFgC… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jimsciutto: "This is genocide," Ukrainian President Zelensky said Sunday, after images emerged of civilian bodies strewn across streets… — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Roy Blunt, who is retiring, is a NO on Jackson, but says on ABC it’s “high point” for US to see her confirmed. “I don't think she's the kind of judge that will really do the kind of work that I think needs to be done” but says he understands “the importance of this moment." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HotlineJosh: WSJ: “Evidence of War Crimes in Ukraine Mounts as Russians Retreat From Kyiv Area” https://t.co/3CxeJmowGs — PolitiTweet.org